UFU HIP-HOP BENEFIT CONCERT

• What: Hip-hop show featuring Krukid, Cornbread, and Text
• When: 10 p.m. Friday, March 7
• Where: Independent Media Center, 202 S. Broadway Ave., Urbana
• Who: All ages welcome
• How Much: All tickets $6; free T-shirts for first 25
• Why: All proceeds go toward grassroots Ugandan organization Come Let's Dance

This is an updated version of a Gargoyle news story that originally ran on Feb. 27.

THE UNI STUDENT organization United For Uganda will host a hip-hop benefit concert for Come Let’s Dance tonight at the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center, 202 S. Broadway, Urbana.

The show, which begins at 10 p.m. (a change from the originally scheduled starting time of 8 p.m.), will feature local rappers and breakdancers. Entrance is open to all ages; tickets cost $6. The first 25 people to arrive will receive free T-shirts. Performers will include:

• Krukid, a Ugandan native and rising international star. He is signed with Rawkus Record; his most recent album is "Afr-I-Can."
• Cornbread, whose albums include "Leftover Bread: Crumbs for Critters." He is working on "Tha Black Magic" LP with Hipgnosis.
• Text, who just released the album "Discretionless."

"Sorry for the late notice," UFU said on its Web site, "but we've just been informed by the IMC that the show can't start until 10 p.m., but from 8 to 10 we will still be there, chilling and talking about the conflict and our cause. Feel free to drop by an hour or so early, educate yourself, guarantee your free T-shirt, and get some free refreshments while you're there."

All proceeds will go to Come Let’s Dance, a grassroots organization in northern Uganda helping former child soldiers and war-torn communities recover from the country's almost 20-yearlong civil war, according to senior Shara Esbenshade, one of UFU's organizers.

United For Uganda is a student group working to understand and spread awareness about the conflict in northern Uganda.

UFU hosted an information assembly about Come Let's Dance on Feb. 8 in Uni Gym. The group also sponsored a junior/senior lock-in Feb. 9-10 to raise money for CLD.

Tonight's concert kicks off "UFU Month." During March, UFU plans to show several movies: the documentaries "Uganda Rising" and "Diamonds in the Rough: A Ugandan Hip Hop Revolution" along with "The Constant Gardener," a 2005 movie starring Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz about a corrupt pharmaceutical corporation doing business in Kenya.

The movie nights will be free and will take place at Uni. Dates and times will be announced.

UFU will also sponsor a personal sacrifice campaign throughout March. Anyone is welcome to participate by giving up something they like — such as a daily cup of coffee — and donating the money they would have spent on that. A prize will be given to the person who raises the most money through their sacrifice.