"Hip-hop was my therapy before therapy was." On a fall afternoon, J.C. Hall's hip-hop therapy studio at New York's Mott Haven Community High School in the Bronx is buzzing, with students gathered ...

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 ...

In 2005, Dr. Olajide Williams felt like he had two jobs. Each evening, he'd finish up his work as a physician at Harlem Hospital Center and walk seven blocks to the studio of hip-hop artist and "The ...

A non-profit fund has been established to give some older artists' support. While history remembers many of hip-hop's artists who laid the bricks for the foundation of the genre, there are some, like ...