CHICAGO — A summer safe space is being created for kids in Chicago’s 15th Police District in the city’s Austin neighborhood. The move is part of an initiative called ‘Hip Hop Tuesday.’ Offered to kids ...

(RNS) — For Jewish educator Matt Bar, there’s no better way to involve kids in the Passover seder than through the rhythmic, rhyming recitation of rap. (RNS) — If there’s one religious requirement for ...

Marquan Shumpert-Reid, a professional hip-hop producer who’s worked with the likes of Lil Wayne, Joyner Lucas and Lady London, has been spending his afternoons instructing kids at Pulaski Middle ...

It's not your typical class. One set of middle schoolers aren't learning their ABCs. Instead, Mr. BKR has his students writing rhymes and producing beats. "I'm taking figurative language, metaphors, ...

A GIFT. THAT’S RIGHT, DEB, IT WAS BEAUTIFUL TO HEAR. YOU KNOW, HE SAYS THAT HE WAS VERY INVOLVED WITH THIS PROGRAM CALLED BEATS NOT BULLETS. TODAY WE GOT TO GO TO ...