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TRI-C PRESENTS THE WATTS PROPHETS Wednesday, March
26, 7:00 pm Eastern Campus
Performing Arts Center Thursday, March
27, 7:00 pm Western Campus
Performing Arts Center Friday, March 28,
7:00 pm Metro Campus
Auditorium The Watts Prophets
are Richard Dedeux, Amde Hamilton and Otis O’Solomon who live, work and
create in Watts, California, something they have done for more than thirty
years. 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. In
1967, these three, the best of the students in the prestigious Watts Writers
Workshop, won their first amateur talent contest as a nameless group. But then,
after they recited/chanted/ spoke/sung/witnessed their unique jazz-accompanied
topical poem, an audience member -- dazzled by their performance -- shouted,
“They must be the Watts Prophets!” "Hip-hop's going
from the top of the charts to the head of the class, even into Scholastic
children's books. Teachers are using it as a learning tool - sometimes on the
sly"-- Philadelphia Inquirer Please call
216-241-6000 to purchase tickets or copy/paste the
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