Ideas worth spreading

TED Residency

December 2018

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How rap saves lives

Raegan Sealy presents a daring account of trauma and healing as she waxes poetic on the power of rap. Through lyrical music, she confronts privilege, violence, race and the discomfort of borrowing from a culture that is not her own, while discovering a community that is.

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This talk was presented at an official TED conference.

Raegan Sealy presents a daring account of trauma and healing as she waxes poetic on the power of rap. Through lyrical music, she confronts privilege, violence, race and the discomfort of borrowing from a culture that is not her own, while discovering a community that is.

This talk was presented at an official TED conference.

About the speaker

Raegan Sealy

Raegan Sealy is a poet, singer, rapper and the founder of Sound Board NYC. Raegan draws on her own experiences of domestic violence, sexual abuse and addiction in her work as an artist and advocate, to empower others to own their stories.