Episode 33- The Soul Pros with Christina Tobin

Christina Tobin interviews the Colorado-based conscious hip-hop group The Soul Pros outside their concert opening up for hip-hop legend KRS-One. The interview was co-produced by We Are Change Colorado for the Free and Equal Network.

The group performed at Free and Equal’s 2014 Open Colorado Gubernatorial Debate moderated by Professor Griff of Public Enemy. This interview was conducted before the debate, so they discuss their performing at the debate and the importance of bridging art and social justice. The Soul Pros support opening our elections so that all candidates have an equal voice in debates, the media, and in the electoral process. They also support political reform being part of a larger equation mixed in with non-political community actions, like how the group helps people to build community gardens, aquaponics, geodesic domes, and use non-GMO seeds, so that the abundance of food can be more plentiful in struggling communities, bringing the people closer together and able to be charitable with their food to those who are truly in need.

Watch the entire Colorado Gubernatorial Debate at youtube.com/freeandequal, featuring a performance by The Soul Pros after the debate, and speeches by Dennis Kucinich (via video) and Dr. Jill Stein (2012 Green Party presidential candidate & fan of The Soul Pros) before the debate.