Roberto Rivera

If our kids today can realize their link in the chain of the hip-hop tradition, it’s not so farfetched that they might create the next Facebook.

Roberto Rivera’s personal story is about the expansion of true consciousness in one young person, who was tagged early on as learning-disabled, then shunted from one alternative school to another. He got into trouble, and almost slid into an abyss of statistics that presumed his ultimate disconnection from family and community — from the “good life.”