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The program in question had been completed after Downes conducted residencies and concerts at the Watts Learning Center school campus as well as with USC’s Neighborhood Academic Initiative.

Dees’ grandfather, Odis Sneed, said if such a killing had occurred in the Watts of his childhood, “the hood would not let this get away. Somebody would come forward and say something.”

And the dialogue is largely functional, Burnett never building to some grand thesis, refusing to reduce Watts to inner-city clichés or its denizens to doe-eyed saints.

Born and raised in Watts, Sampson made history in 1982 as the first Black man to win a world championship in professional rodeo.

Last year, Alfie Watts went global, becoming the youngest ever winner of Race Across the World - the BBC show that does exactly what it says on the tin.