Educators are increasingly turning to hip-hop to engage young people in school. Goodboy Picture Company/E+ via Getty Images One of my most heartwarming memories from elementary school was the day my ...

Editor's Note: This interview is part of an ongoing Star series highlighting Kansas Citians from historically underrepresented communities and their impact on our region. The series builds on The Star ...

Dr. Don C. Sawyer, a sociology professor at Quinnipiac University, mentioned on Thursday evening that he’d co-edited a book called Hip-Hop and Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline, out now as of ...

To echo the late essayist, Stanley Crouch, nothing says I want to live more than hip-hop. This street-born culture has saved lives—literally. As hip-hop culture celebrates its 50th birthday, Toby S.

Celebrating 50 years of hip hop and exploring its connections to culture and pedagogy is the focus of this year’s Teaching Black History Conference at UB. The conference theme this year is “The Sounds ...

Hip-Hop Education Center and Hip-Hop For Change Team Up to Research and Expand the California Department of Education Hip-Hop Education and Equity Initiative This is much needed research that will ...

The Hip-Hop Education Center proudly marks its 15th anniversary with the launch of Hip-Hop CommUniversity and the K–12 Hip-Hop Music Education Guidelines. With HHCU and the K–12 Guidelines, we’re ...

One of my most heartwarming memories from elementary school was the day my gym teacher tossed the planned activities, turned on some hip-hop music and just let us dance. I smile thinking of us all ...

For each panelist, hip hop was a deep, undeniable part of their lives. It had also become what drove them as educators — in school, conferences, workshops, college, and prisons — and continued to be a ...