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These progenitors of hip-hop came out of the Watts riots of 1965 as angry, disillusioned teenagers, and were recruited by legendary screenwriter, Budd Schulberg (On the Waterfront) as students for his Watts Writers Workshop. There they discovered their strongest ally in their personal quest for justice — literacy. For the past 40 years, the Prophets have used their gift for expressive, poetic language as the galvanizing tool that creates empowerment, pride and responsibility in communities of young people around the world.
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< Hip-Hop Poetry Choir An intensive community residency program in which the Prophets collaborate with young people in the community to create a performance ensemble that uses hip-hop as the medium to express their own issues. A powerful instrument to demonstrate the values of mentoring, community engagement and literacy.
“Their work is burnished truth and experience, with none of the strident, self-aggrandizement that trivializes so much today.” –L.A. Weekly |
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