In 1992 he started the first Hip Hop school club in the country, the Live Lyricist Society. He started his career as a teacher in the first High School Black Studies Department in the country at Berkeley High School. His revolutionary pedagogy and critical hip hop engagement practices are informed by the critical philosophies of Paulo Freire and the Pan African humanism of Alaine Locke.
Hodari Davis is a radical intellectual and futurist who’s poetic tongue and renegade speech is known all over the world. She is a leading voice in Afrofuturism, helping to define the term and its practice for a new generation of Afrofuturists. She guest edits for NV Magazine and her works have appeared in Huffington Post, Chicago Tribune, Ebony, Essence, VIBE, and more. Womack's other books include Rayla 2213 (2016) Post Black: How a New Generation is Refining African American Identity (2010), which was a Booklist Top 10 Black History Reader, and Beats, Rhymes and Life: What We Love & Hate About Hip Hop (2007). The film won Best Experimental Film at the Collected Voices Festival. It was featured in Afropunk Brooklyn, Black(s) to the Future Fest in Paris, Cultura IberaAmericana in Cuba, Afrotopia in Bristol, England, Reel Time Film Fest in Lagos, Nigeria and the Black Harvest Film Fest in Chicago among others. Afrofuturism is taught in high schools and universities across the world.Her film "A Love Letter to the Ancestors From Chicago" (2017) is an Afrofuturist dance film. Her works in Afrofuturism have been translated into Portuguese and Spanish for markets in Brazil and Latin America. The book is a 2014 Locus Awards Non Fiction Finalist.Womack tours the world championing Afrofuturism and the role of the imagination. Her book Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci Fi & Fantasy Culture (2013) is the leading primer on the exciting subject which bridges science fiction, futurisms, and culture. Womack is a critically acclaimed author, filmmaker, dancer, independent scholar, and champion of humanity and the imagination.
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