Description: AWKWORD is an internationally known New York-based rapper, songwriter, executive producer, publicist, curator, influencer, activist, speaker, and journalist.
AWKWORD is an internationally known New York-based rapper, songwriter, executive producer, publicist, curator, influencer, activist, speaker, and journalist.
Labeled “Antifa militant” by Andy Ngo and “quite profound” by Chuck D of Public Enemy , AWKWORD has fought for justice and equality through protest song, political organizing, digital strategy and street journalism for nearly a quarter century. He is a co-founder of TEN DEMANDS, co-creator of Ten For Justice: The Road to Abolition , and founding member of Our United Left .
Raised by an activist mother radicalized during the Civil Rights and Vietnam War eras, AWKWORD converted from troubled graffiti artist and Nazi destroyer — angry and acting out at the world’s injustices — to productive organizer at 16, when he collaborated with the Anti-Defamation League to establish what would become his (predominantly Christian, conservative) high school’s annual Diversity Day. That year, he also created his school’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, and spoke for the first time at the town’s Ma