Jan 11, 2015
Incredible Teen Poets Sum Up Everything Wrong With America
American textbooks have plenty of blind spots, but Belissa Escobedo, Rhiannon McGavin and Zariya Allen offer a wide-ranging view of our country in their powerful slam poem, āSomewhere Else in America.ā And itās not a pretty picture.
The teen spoken-word poets are members of theĀ Get LitĀ organization, a nonprofit that uses spoken word to improve literacy rates in Los Angeles, whereĀ 40 percent of teens wonāt graduate high school.Ā
Watch their performance and hear their full poem here.Ā
Watch this. I emplore you.
This gives me hope for the future. These three young girls are speaking up and paving the way for future kids. I am so proud of them.
