ABOUT US

Elevated Minds Embracing Righteousness And Gaining Equality (E.M.E.R.G.E.) grounds its philosophy in the existential witness propounded by Hip Hop culture. Our organization approaches issues of aesthetics, culture, economics, sociology, philosophy, and psychology purely from a Hip Hop perspective, which is viewing the latter concepts with critical, inclusive, intellectual, and progressive lenses From its inception, Hip Hop is the prototype of avant-garde forms of expression. Diverse voices from around the world have found a home within the music after hearing the siren songs of America’s urban and agrarian youth: the reverberations of pain and affirmation universally ring true. Beginning as an art form, Hip Hop is now a philosophical tool for creating a vocabulary, analyzing, and disseminating ideas about the world in which we live EMERGE uses Hip Hop as a tool for education, communal development, activism, critical thinking, humanization, and social reconstruction

EMERGE is a non-profit organization dedicated to developing future leaders from marginalized communities using Hip Hop to bridge critical reading & writing improvement, college readiness, socio-emotional literacy, and professional development