​Cultural Revolution: The Watts Renaissance

"The Art of Creative Survival: “During the 1960s and 1970s black Los Angeles produced dozens of cultural groupings that sought both to foster a new art and to generate a new relationship between creativity and community. These organizations were defined in part by their variety: theater companies like the Inner City Cultural Center and the Performing Arts Society of Los Angeles; community arts projects like the Mafundi Institute and St. Elmo Village; galleries like Brockman and Gallery 32; formal bodies like the Watts Writers Workshop and informal tendencies like the cohort of avant-garde black filmmakers who trained at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). ...”

Hammer, W – Watts Writers Workshop, W – The Watts Prophets

Performing Arts Legacy: Inner City Cultural Center, Los Angeles

Jordan Downs Transformation by the Decade-1970’s

As If I was Carrying a Gun: Art and Surveillance in 1960s Watts (Video)

LA Weekly: Historic Watts Coffee House Hopes to Become a Gathering Space for Artists Once Again, Watts Profits: The city wants to redevelop the historic Mafundi Institute in Watts. Can the community save it? Remembering, Rethinking, and Renaming the Watts Rebellion

W – Maulana Karenga, W – Kwanzaa

Novelist and screenwriter Budd Schulberg, center, began the Watts Writers Workshop in 1965. It was his personal effort at reconstruction after the Watts Riots.