Hip-hop is still a strong and changing force in the lives of students. It changes fashion trends and language, raises social awareness, and improves educational experiences. Hip-hop started in the ...

A service-learning course shows hip hop songwriting can help kids with vocabulary – as well as trying to make sense of the world Ask Deja Simms, a sixth-grade English Language Arts teacher at Durham’s ...

Throughout American history, Black innovators such as Benjamin Banneker, Lewis Latimer, Madam C.J. Walker and Dr. Charles Drew helped shape scientific and industrial progress, even as the nation built ...

Jamila Sams, founder of We Do It For The Culture, helps children grow Social Emotional Learning skills by developing a curriculum rooted in Hip-Hop. Jamila Sams is a former educator, hip-hop head, and ...

U.S. first lady Michelle Obama flexes her muscles as she exercises with schoolchildren at the River Terrace School April 21, 2010 in Washington, DC. Mrs. Obama visited the school to highlight physical ...

Big global messages can come from small towns. Consider Snow Hill, a rural hamlet nearly 100 miles east of Duke University. One of Snow Hill’s native daughters is Marlanna Evans — known as Rapsody — a ...

After over two decades helping kids learn through hip-hop, Dyalekt is sharing a message with all the educators Harvard Dyalekt, an educator who incorporates hip-hop into his subject matters, is ...

Dyalekt, co-founder of Pockets Change and creator of Hip-Hop FinFest, is transforming financial education through hip-hop pedagogy. After leaving law school following the Amadou Diallo case, he ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) – New York Comic Con is up and running at the Javits Center, and the co-creators of “The Graphic History of Hip Hop (Vol. 1)” helped kick things up with a panel. Dr. Walter Greason, ...

There's something almost absurd about it, if you think too hard. A music genre born in the Bronx in the 1970s, born from poverty and urban frustration, ends up being one of the most powerful tools for ...

When “Arthur” debuted on PBS KIDS in 1996, the theme song “Believe in Yourself” was a catchy tune I just could not stop humming. Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers contributed a timeless intro song ...