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CULTURAL HEALING AT UMASS
On Sat Dec 6th 2025 from 5pm-10pm Poetic Recovery brings Cultural Healing to the Theatre in New Africa house. Cultural Healing is an annual family friendly, alcohol and drug free annual event that features a Keynote speaker, world famous Dj Johnny Juice Rosado of Public Enemy, member of Poetic Recovery, Wu Tang affiliate, and award winning M.C/Farmer “The God Life Giving Emcee”, community artists from the area we are in, speakers, workshops, lifetime achievement awards, and performances.
CULTURAL HEALING celebrates the year long cultural work in communities that encourage healing, recovery. and interpersonal communication to build cultural communities. This event is a family friendly, alcohol and drug free annual event that will feature a Keynote speaker, UMass's distinguished professor Dr Amilcar Shabazz, Dj Johnny Juice Rosado of Public Enemy, member of Poetic Recovery, Wu Tang affiliate, and award winning M.C/Farmer “The God Life Giving Emcee”, community activist Darlene Elias, Maurice "Soulfighter" Taylor and many great artist bios from across New England. There will be speakers, workshops, lifetime achievement awards, and performances.
This event and other Poetic Recovery programs and tools are a great fit for your students, community members, employees, Undergraduate and graduate students. Participants will leave with a full understanding of the power of culture, access to Poetic Recovery tools that will allow them to use and develop skills relating to humanities such as interpersonal and cross-cultural communication, critical thinking, addressing social justice issues and more. Our tools will allow your students to develop cultural networks to be heard and seen, promote other positive artists, and take on the many challenges facing their communities, the country and the world today due to cultural exploitation and appropriation which has manifested higher violence rates, lack of constructive self reflection, and isolation due to destruction of healthy communities.
There will be 3 workshops offered as part of the Cultural Healing event. 1: poetry/rhyming, 2: music productions, and 3: DeeJaying which are developed to tap into super powers of the attendees such as listening, vulnerability, and building community. These workshops will allow attendees to learn the power, obtain a basic understanding, and knowledge of Hip Hop culture. They will also access free tools to begin their cultural journey to take control of the narrative of their culture that will lead to a keen sense of self, self validation, building networks and communities to take on social issues. This feeds the mind and spirit and leads to a spiritual and cultural freedom.
The following tools were developed by Maurice Taylor, founder of Poetic Recovery Inc. The tool will allow the attendees to take back the narrative of their culture, encourage healing, recovery, and building communities via cultural expression. Maurice "Soulfighter" Taylor, who is a former abused foster child, connected to the positive messages and community of rap music led to the creation the nonprofit Poetic Recovery Inc which aided in his long-term recovery from trauma and addiction for 30 plus years. Over the last 20 years many lives have been touched by Poetic Recovery open mic, Poetic Recovery tools, and last year's 1st annual Cultural Healing event.
These are tools that Poetic Recovery offers:
1: Newsat11.org A collaborative project with Dj Johnny Juice, the Life Given Emcee, and Maurice “Soulfighter” Taylor to make Hip Hop the news of the streets again. Artists that submit A capella tracks about what’s really going on in their Hood can get their track laced by a customized beat by Johnny Juice of Public Enemy.
2: Poeticrecoveryradio.com. Online radio station where independent artists are invited to submit their music to share with people in society looking for messages of healing.
3: Poeticrecovery.us Is a Black owned and growing cultural/social media network where artists, business people join to connect, collaborate, promote their work with 30 sec videos and their tracks, sell products in the market place, business pages that are created here are given free advertisement on poetic recovery radio collectively all encourage buying local to create and promote local economies.
4: Clinics: Workshops on spoken word, Hip Hop and its elements, crafted as aids to recovery and healing so people can navigate their pain, create connections, and see the impact of cultural expression.
Sincerely,
Maurice “Soulfighter” Taylor
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2024 COMMUNITY AGAINST HATE LIFE TIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD RECIPIENTS
DJ JOHNNY "JUICE" ROSADO, JUANITA BATCHELOR, AND STEPHEN STIX JOSEY
JOHNNY "JUICE" ROSADO Production Advisor, Producer,Dj, Artist at Public Enemy, DJ, Producer, Artist at The Oddysy, Global Vice President at The Bronx Boys Rocking Crew - TBB TBG Global. He brings a messages of self suffienciency, using Hip Hop culture to inspire change, and movement forward. Essentially encouraging Poetic Recovery.
"DJ Johnny “Juice” Rosado is an award winning and Emmy and NAACP Image Nominated Composer, Producer, Turntablist, Engineer, Musician, B-boy, Graf writer, MC, Educator, Lecturer, and Mentor. Raised in the Bronx, he witnessed the birth of Hip Hop right on his doorstep. Moving to Strong Island in the early 80's, he immediately made an impact on Long Island's budding Hip-Hop scene. His work, especially with Public Enemy, has been embedded into Hip Hop history. With over 29 years in the industry, he has contributed to some of Hip Hop’s greatest works. Over the years he has lent his production and scratching skills to projects by other legendary Hip Hop artists such as the Beastie Boys, Slick Rick, Leaders of the New School, and DMC.
Nominated for an Outstanding Music Composition Emmy for his work on ESPN's Ali Rap, Johnny Juice is focusing more film and TV music scoring and soundtracks. Recently nominated for 3 NAACP Image Awards including Best Album, Juice continues to remain relevant in an ever changing industry spending 3 years as producer and on-air radio personality for ...ANDYOUDON'TSTOP! The 120 minute, multi-segmented, ground-breaking Radio Show featuring the legendary Chuck D. In 2008 he was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame as a member of Public Enemy and took the stage with Public Enemy in 2013 as they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame..
Johnny Juice has currently teamed up with KJ to form The Oddysy, a potent amalgamation of jazz, hip hop, and pop, with a sound eclipsing the sum of its parts. Check them out HERE! Johnny Juice is currently the Global Vice President of the Bronx Boys/Girls Rocking Crew. The Bronx Boys Rocking Crew was created in 1975 as the first Latino rocking (break dance) crew and the founders of the original style of floor rocking. To learn more, click HERE!"
Juanita Batchelor is an African American woman born to her two parents on an Air Force base in Missouri. Juanita moved to Springfield,Massachusetts at three years old where she later became a mother to her two children Darrell and Jajuana Jenkins and later became a Grandmother of five. Juanita's first experience in serving her community began in a healthcare setting as she worked as a CNA for several years. On June 4th, 2014, Juanita's life changed forever as she bore the loss of her only son Darrell Lee Jenkins Jr. to gun violence. Darrell's murder although still unsolved remains a catalyst for turning her pain into purpose in the fight for justice.
That year she began community organizing efforts to establish a support group MORE (Mother, Overlooked, Reaching Out, Empowerment)Inspiring Change Fighting For Justice for BIPOC families experiencing loss due to homicide and missing persons. In 2020 MORE officially became a 501c3 non-profit, offering support to all genders, youth, and BIPOC backgrounds. MORE's office is currently located at 20 Maple Street, Springfield, MA, 01103 and is open to the public. Juanita and the volunteers at MORE have hopes to expand and open a larger community safe space called the Darrell Lee Jenkins Jr. Resource Center in honor of her son.
his professional music career with Sony Records producing for the likes of MobbDeep, John Legend, Wu-Tang and several others. Stix has aligned himself withfeature films and birthed Stix productions. The Company specializes in Film & Music, and also has created several feature films. The first film is called “Angels Around Me”, it was written by Stephen "Stix" Josey. The Film gained notoriety and was entered in the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival in 2012. The movie went on to win an award for “Best new director”; Stephen has also produced (The American Family Dreamers TV Series, The Hills, Gangland, Who’s on My Side, Temporary File) just to name a few.
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WAS FIRST GIVEN TO DAN DAN-SKI MACKEY and DJ TONE CRUSH IN 2013
Dan Mackey who was awarded posthumous and Dj Tone Crush who is a founding member of the legendary Cold Crush Brothers (One of Dan-Ski's favorite Hip Hop groups), was also awarded this life time achievement award due to life long dedication to their cultural expression Hip Hop and using it bring people together to make the work a better world. . This award goes to individual who use their existence to work and make the world a better place for so many others.
DAN "DAN-SKI MACKEY" and DJ TONE CRUSH
In 2013 Dan "Dan-Ski" Mackey was awarded posthumous and Dj Tone Crush who is a founding member of the legendary Cold Crush Brothers (One of Dan-Ski's favorite Hip Hop groups), was also awarded this life time achievement award due to life long dedication to their cultural expression Hip Hop and using it bring people together to make the work a better world.
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COMMUNITY AGAINST HATE LIFE TIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
The award honors people who make time to build community, take on the toughest issues in society and work with people around them to create solutions through new opportunities, education, and cultural expression. This award goes to individual who use their existence to work and make the world a better place for so many others despite the pain they endure.
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