Finished Work!

We're pleased to showcase the final product of our collaborative Hip Hop Teen + Roots & Visions Special Edition for the Prospect.1 Biennial. Below are some images of the Magazine and Billboard production. Please take a look and let us know what your thoughts are!

The Hip Hop Teen + Roots & Visions Special Edition for the Prospect.1 Biennial
Featuring the following youth organizations.....

Ya-Ya (Young Aspirations/Young Artists)
2 Cent Entertainment
Blackstar
The Porch
Youthanasia
ISL (International School of Louisiana)
Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana
Re-Think New Orleans Schools
An Interview with Local Artist John Barnes
Positive Image Entertainment
Children of the Village Foundation
and Hip Hop Teen

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BILLBOARDS

1728 St. Claude @ Reynes (Lower 9th Ward)

The real CrimeStoppers Billboard located throughout New Orleans

Counter Crime Stoppers Billboard

An 8 year old African American youth looked up at the Crime Stoppers billboard and asked his grandmother, "Are all black men bad?"
The images presented in the Crime Stoppers billboards and the mass media, often portray negative images of young African American males. This counter billboard shows the 8 year old and others that all black men are not bad, and that in fact, the majority of African American males are leading positive, productive lives and contributing greatly to this city, state and nation.
Celebrate who we are! - Hip Hop Teen Magazine

2000 S. Claiborne @ St. Andrew (Border of Uptown Downtown)

Brotherhood

Black on black violence has reached epidemic proportions in communities across America. In this community and others, young people are targeted because they live in one neighborhood and visit or pass through another. Just recently, we learned about a talented young African American music artist who was beaten up at his school because he lived in a particular area and went to school in another. In New Orleans, our young men are sometimes challenged because they live in one ward or another or live uptown and happen to be caught downtown or vice versa. This billboard embodies the principal that we are brothers, the fist bump, which was created in the African American Community suggests love, respect and a togetherness that cannot be denied. The brotherhood billboard hopes to unite our entire community in a spirit of love, respect and brotherhood. - Hip Hop Teen Magazine

1728 St. Claude Ave. @ Annette St. (near 7th Ward)

What is Your Vision?

What is vision? Vision is to see ahead or imagine. Vision is the element that steers your life into direction.. Vision is equivalent to light. Without light, your focus is dark. If you can't state your vision, it is as if you are blind in life bother physically and mentally without control. When you engage your gift of vision, you liberate your consciousness, you can communicate to lift and suggest the direction you wish to go.

Chef Highway and Read Blvd (New Orleans East)

Question Your Stereotypes

Racial profiling is commonplace in communities across America. African American males are targeted and thought of as thugs and criminals because of the way they dress or the way they wear their hair. Martin Luther King once said that he dreamed of an Amercia where people were judged by the content of theri character not by the color of their skin, we would add "by the way they dress or wear their hair". Whether a young man is in street clothes or a suit and ties, he is the same man who has dreams, ideas and aspirations like any other man. Judge who we are not how we dress!