With new academic standards ratcheting up literacy expectations, many teachers are looking for ways to engage students more deeply in writing and reading assignments. Lauren Leigh Kelly, an English ...

Hip-hop has been influencing pop culture for years. As slang becomes more socially accepted, the crossover appeal is inevitable and it's nice when rap gets the recognition it deserves. More than 10 ...

LONDON — In the grittier corners of east and south London, British hip-hop heads bounce to the same beat that pounds in American clubs. But instead of sending shout-outs to Long Beach or Brooklyn, ...

2003: On April 30, 2003, the term "bling bling" was officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary. The phrase—which is an ideophone that refers to flashy, often diamond-encrusted jewelry—was one ...

It’s a scene straight out of a cheesy “Saturday Night Live” skit, the Bronx and Bombay meeting at the musical crossroads of hip-hop. On the stage at the Park West, turbanned Sikhs, clad in the ...

The phenomenon has threaded through society since it was born in the Bronx in 1973. Hip-hop is on radio, television, fashion and sports arenas. This year the movement is celebrating a special birthday ...

It was the best of hip-hop times. It was the worst of hip-hop times. Ha! 2025 was a rollercoaster of rap music’s highs and lows. The duality was so real. I can’t recall a year with such a wide array ...

Hip-hop in its earliest incarnations was an experiential thing — not just because rappers and DJs had yet to secure the backing of major labels, but because their work depended on the texture and ...

Hip-hop has always been in my classroom as have other forms of figurative expression. Its most recent appearance was unplanned and surfaced last Wednesday during a discussion of "A More Perfect Union, ...

Beastie Boys and Run-DMC, Public Enemy and Salt n Pepa (Credit: Lynn Goldsmith/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images, Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images, Michael Putland/Getty Images) In August 1973, the ...