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manlanders — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:43:45 CDT

The H2Ed Wiki is a resource tool created specifically for Educators, Researchers, Journalists, Community Organizers, Parents, Youth, and Hip-Hop Aficionados.

It includes resources like descriptions and links to valuable Hip-Hop books, movies, CD's, learning models and other pedagogical tools. Follow the link below.

Hip-Hop Education Wiki Resources

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H2Ed Wiki Websites

manlanders — Thu, 14 May 2009 08:27:23 CDT

H2Ed Wiki Blogs
See our list of blogs pertaining to Hip-Hop, education, and just plain old better life.

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All Hip Hop
Hip-Hop news and happenings.

As Eye See It
Hip-Hop, photography and words.

Ashay By The Bay
Afrocentric HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention.

Dr. Charles H. Beady, Jr.
Programs and Materials for motivating youngsters at risk of academic and social failure.

Body Parts Rap 4 Kids
Body Parts Rap 4 Kids is an interactive learning experience for children between the ages of 2 and 6 that presents the least familiar body parts in a way that is fun and memorable. Using animation, real-to-life footage and rap music, children will participate in call and response communication identifying their undiscovered body parts like knuckles, wrists, calves, buttocks and more. They will also gain a sense of confidence in learning, as this video is a guaranteed learning tool. A children's activity book/leader's guide is also available.

Culture of Respect
A project of PRIDE-NYC intending to turn the tide against intolerance, hate, and violence.

Davey D's Hip-Hop Corner
Considered one of the oldest and largest Hip Hop sites on the web Davey D's Hip Hop Corner offers music, articles, history and more. Davey D is a Hip Hop historian, journalist, deejay, and community activist.

The DJ Project
The DJ Project is an arts entrepreneurship program built on a hip-hop foundation. It uses music to engage young adults, giving them opportunities to develop in a context familiar to them. Through small business management, audio and video production, job readiness training and community service, The DJ Project model is a creative learning experience for the hip-hop generation. Recognizing hip-hop as a positive educational medium, The DJ Project hopes to collaborate and share its curriculum with other youth agencies and educators eager to implement programs with strong youth appeal.

Domingoyu
The home of DJ Chino, Domingo Yu, and Daniel D. Zarazua; all the same person, but each name has its role. The author's interests revolve around urban music and education. Includes music, interviews, articles and more.

Earth Tone Enterprises
Innovative music for education and entertainment.

Edutainment 4 Life
Edutainment4Life, Inc. is dedicated to ensuring quality education for all youth. We offer methods of employing entertaining education for life skills and self-help. We are a collective of consultants who assist underserved communities in a variety of capacities.

Empowerment through Hip Hop
The Empowerment Through Hip Hop Foundation is an organization dedicated to using Hip Hop culture as a tool for social change and youth empowerment.

Fatbeats
The spot for the music lover with a passion for all things hip-hop.

Female Hip-Hop
Female Hip-Hop, a Berlin based project, focuses on women in Hip-Hop- whether on the mic, on decks, with spray cans, in motion, at the controllers or any other kind. As a network, femalehiphop.net intends to call female activists from all over the world to get in touch with each other, to exchange ideas and to support the movement.

Flipping the Script: Critical Thinking in a Hip-Hop World
A curriculum for teaching students media literacy and other topics using hip-hop music and culture.

Flocabulary
Flocabulary fuses rhyme and music for effective and engaging vocabulary study (including SAT prep).

FMA Live!
A touring group that teaches about Newton's Three Laws of Motion through Hip-Hop, entertaining demos, and real life science.

Future 5000
A directory of youth organizations across the U.S. Future 5000 is the virtual spinal cord of today's youth movement, both a historical document of our movement and a tool to keep it growing in a connected way.

Graffiti Verite
Exploring the art of graffiti, this site is also dedicated to independent filmmaking and filmmakers.

H.E.L.P.: Hip-Hop as an Educational Literacy Program
Comprehensive lesson plans for teaching language arts and literacy skills for 13-18 year olds.

Hip Hop ABCS
The mission of the Hip Hop ABCs is to use positive elements of hip hop culture as a teaching tool for parents and educators. Hip hop is a vibrant cultural movement relevant to today’s children, and the art, dance and music of hip hop will get kids from all backgrounds excited about learning.

The Hip Hop Archive
The Hip Hop Archive organizes and develops collections, initiates and participates in research activities, sponsors events and acquires material culture associated with hip hop in the United States and throughout the world.

Hip-Hop Association
The Hip-Hop Association is dedicated to facilitating, fostering, preserving hip-hop culture. H2Ed [Hip-Hop Education] is the education initiative of the Hip-Hop Association. With programming like the Summer Teacher Institute, the H2Ed [Hip-Hop Education] Summit, and developing projects like the Hip-Hop Education Wiki and H2Ed Guidebook, we promote community and self empowerment through education.

The Hip Hop Caucus
The Hip-Hop Caucus was established to provide a comprehensive agenda for the Hip-Hop community both domestically and abroad. The Caucus' programs promote social and political equality in the areas of Economics, Education, HealthCare, Housing, and Justice.

The Hip-Hop Circuit
The Hip-Hop Circuit illustrates the connectedness among Hip Hop, Popular Culture and, Education.

Hip-Hop Church
The Hip-Hop Church in Harlem, New York brings together the energy of Hip Hop, ministry, and faith.

Hip-Hop Congress
The Hip-Hop Congress uses the culture of Hip-Hop to inspire young people to get involved social action, civic service, and cultural creativity. Artist profiles, interviews, program descriptions, and more.

Hip-Hop, defined through wikipedia
Um, what is Hip Hop? (as defined by....)

Hip-Hop Directory
Directory of quality hip hop websites world wide and more; a gateway to the global hip hop community.

Hip Hop and Feminism
Hip Hop and feminism reading list.

Hip-Hop Matters
Hip-Hop Matters is a Washington DC based non-profit organization serving the youth of America through three operating areas: Youth Advocacy, Urban Youth Outreach, and Education; and the responsible use of Hip Hop's culture and elements.

Hip-Hop Music
Radio show and hip hop blogs

Hip-Hop Poetry and the Classics for the Classroom
Alan Sitomer and Mike Cirelli co-wrote an instructional guide for how to incorporate Hip-Hop into the classroom; specifically through language arts skills. At this site teachers can see sample lessons and order the book for more information.

Hip-Hop Portal
Database that will centralize access to known, published resources that document hip hop culture.

Hip-Hop Reader
This website brings together Hip Hop and literacy. The program, by the National Urban League, features reading recommendations from Hip Hop artists; with follow-up quizzes and prizes.

Hip Hop Slam
This website hosts a wealth of information, with sections ranging from War to Scratch Attach Radio

Hip-Hop Summit Action Network
Harnessing the cultural relevance of Hip-Hop music to serve as a catalyst for educational advocacy and other societal concerns fundamental to the well-being of at-risk youth throughout the United States.

Hip-Hop Therapy Project
Dedicated to using Hip Hop music and culture as a therapuetic and educational resource.

Hip Learning
This company is developing ways to make public schools and education more interesting. Hip-Hop Science materials can be found here.

International Hip Hop Exchange
Produces cross-cultural concerts, organizes educational and cultural tours, disseminates artist development and technical support opportunities, and promotes artist-to-artist contact and collaboration across international borders.

Intermundos
Columbian hip-hop: breakdance, graffiti, rap, and culture.

Jamphat
Rap represented in mathematical charts and graphs (in a comical way).

JUICE: Justice by Uniting In Creative Energy
Community project in Los Angeles and New York City operating on the belief in Hip-Hop's ability to empower young people.

Keep Rising To The Top
Based in Spanish Harlem, KR3TS provides a positive alternative to social and street pressures by providing dance classes and support programs in a non-discriminating atmosphere.

Kid Hoppaz
15 full length songs that incorporate hip-hop and animated characters to teach language and social skills.

Kuumba Academy
African-centered education academy utilizing the five dimensions of education: spiritual, mental, physical, social, and emotional.

Loop Dreams
An education program dedicated to keeping students in school. Created by Kanye West.

Mindrap
A multimedia education program developed by TiZ Media Foundation encourages students to achieve in math and science by combining interactive teaching applications with hip hop music and culture.

Mr. Wiggles
Mr. Wiggles website: breakdance and graffiti.

Mundo Feliz De ACB
ACB is an independent artist from Valparaiso, Chile, working with artists, young people and adults internationally. Together they work on collaborative mural projects that promote the celebration of life based on values of social justice. See website for graffiti and workshop information.

The Next
The Next: An Impression of Hip Hop Expression.

Nomadic Wax
Production company and record label dedicated to recording, producing, and distributing hip-hop talent from Africa. Nomadic Wax was conceived by Benny Herson who stumbled upon a thriving underground hip-hop scene during a trip to Senegal in the summer of 1999. In 2000, Herson returned to Senegal to write ""Fat Beats, Dope Rhymes and Thug Lives"" a scholarship-wining thesis documenting the rise of Senegalese hip-hop and the power of hip-hop as a means of political/social expression.

Original Hip-Hop Lyrics Archive
An exremely large and thorough archive of hip-hop lyrics.

Phat Time
Computer Literacy program.

The Pride Youth Development Program
PRIDE is an after school youth development program for high and middle school students in Brooklyn. It employs student-centered project learning in the arts, entertainment industry and community service field to motivate even difficult to reach young people. Staff includes youth development specialists, family support staff and academic tutors. Programming occurs at your location, at PRIDE’s WEB Center, and in the community.

The Rappin' Mathematician
Educational resource with accompanying CDs.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
A comprehensive list of free interdisciplinary lesson plans created by fellow educators on various genres of music for various grade levels, including Hip-Hop.

The Sanctuary Community Development Corporation
The Sanctuary CDC offers The Hip-Hop Academy, a program aiming to educate and promote better living in North Minneapolis.

SOHH
Hip-Hop blogs, audio files, video files, and daily news reports.

Soul Imperialist
The description of this blogger reads 'Joe Twist is a musician , scholar, b-boy and/or sardonic observer of modern life.' His blog serves as a semi-scholarly sounding-board/discussion of past and present music and society.

Teachers Unite
Teachers Unite is a growing membership organization dedicated to building a social justice movement of New York City public school teachers.

The Temple Of Hip-Hop
Founded by KRS-ONE with a mission to promote, preserve, and protect hip-hop as a strategy toward health, love, awareness, and wealth.

Urban Word NYC
Urban Word NYC (formerly known as Youth Speaks NY) ignited the youth spoken word and poetry scene in New York City when it was established in partnership with Teachers & Writers Collaborative in 1999. Since then, Urban Word NYC has provided thousands of New York City teenagers with free, safe, ongoing, and uncensored writing and performance opportunities.

University of Hip-Hop
Bringing together youth to learn of each other and the world through Hip Hop. UHH develops programs to serve the metropolitan Chicago area and has satellite groups in Oakland, California and in Polo, Illinois.

Unity Care Group: Hip-Hop 360
Hip-Hop 360 re-engages students into school while giving them an outlet to properly and constructively express themselves.

Uth TV
An outlet for the next generation of storytellers, Uth TV seeks to identify and work with outstanding teen media makers, as well as make Uth TV a place where any youth, no matter their technical skill level, can contribute their voice. The website will constantly have questions and topics to which teens all over the country can respond.

Vocabulary Accelerator
Vocabulary Accelerator is a 12 song CD accompanied by a study guide. The songs use over 300 SAT words and teach their meaning.

What Works Clearinghouse
What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) collects, screens, and identifies studies of the effectiveness of educational interventions (programs, products, practices, and policies). We review the studies that have the strongest design, and report on the strengths and weaknesses of those studies against the WWC Evidence Standards so that you know what the best scientific evidence has to say.

WISE
WISE-Working to Improve Schools and Education; Hip Hop and Education websites, books, and articles.

Youth Sounds
Programs and resources from Youth Sounds that encourage and develop the creative expression of young people.

The 411 Initiative for Change
Uses contemporary arts and culture as tools to deliver public education, facilitate knowledge exchange, raise public awareness and foster social change; site includes projects and programs, teachers' resources, thematic in-focus content on key current issues examined in programming, and contributing artists' descriptions.

H2Ed Wiki Books | C-E

manlanders — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:12:35 CST

Kermit E. Campbell

Getting Our Groove On: Rhetoric, Language, and Literacy for the Hip Hop Generation

Luther Campbell & John R. Miller

As Nasty as They Wanna Be: The Uncensored Story of Luther Campbell of the 2 Live Crew

Mary Campbell

Hip Hop Happy!: Adventures in physical activity for 3-5 year olds

Peggy Campbell-Rush

Hip-Hop AlphaBop Activity Book

Geoffrey Canada

Fist Stick Knife Gun

Douglas Century

Hip Hop Babylon: The Real Stories Behind Rap's Greatest Scandals

Raquel Cepeda

"And It Don't Stop" - The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years

Jeff Chang

Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation

Charise Cheney

Brothers Gonna Work it Out: Sexual Politics in the Golden Age of Rap Nationalism

Farai Chideya

The Color of Our Future

Chuck D. & Yusuf Jah

Rap, Race, and Reality

Cheo Hodari Coker

UNBELIEVABLE: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of Notorious B.I.G.

Johnnetta Betsch Cole & Beverly Guy-Sheftall

Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women's Equality in African American Communities

Brian Coleman

Rakim Told Me: Hip Hop Wax Facts, Straight from the Original Artists - The 80s

Patricia Hill Collins

From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism

Miriam Cooke

Muslim Networks: From Hajj to Hip Hop

Martha Cooper

Hip-Hop Files: Photographs 1979-1984

Martha Cooper & Henry Chalfant

Subway Art

Brian Cross

It's Not About a Salary: Rap, Race, and Resistance in Los Angeles

Sampson Davis, George Jenkins & Rameck Hunt, with Lisa Frazier Page

The Pact

Edward Dejesus

Makin' It: The Hip Hop Guide to True Survival

Matt Diehl

Notorious C.O.P.: The True Story of the NYPD Hip Hop Cop Who Cracks the Cases of Tupac, Biggie, and Jam Master Jay

Greg Dimitriadis

Performing Identity/Performing Culture: Hip Hop as Text, Pedagogy, and Lived Practice

DMX & Smokey D. Fontaine

E.A.R.L.: The Autobiography of DMX

Ian Driver

A Century of Dance: A Hundred Years of Musical Movement from Waltz to Hip-Hop

George DuBose

I Speak Music - Hip Hop - Old School Volume One

Alain-Phillipe Durand

Black, Blanc, Beur: Rap Music and Hip-Hop Culture in the Francophone world

Michael Eric Dyson

Is Bill Cosby Right? (Or Has The Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?)
Open Mike: Reflections on Philosophy, Race, Sex, Culture, and Religion
The Michael Eric Dyson Reader
Why I Love Black Women
Race Rules: Navigating The Color Line
Between God and Gangsta Rap
Holler If You Hear Me: Searching For Tupac Shakur

Sally Edwards & Sarah Edwards (Eds.)

Blag

Dimitri Ehrlich & Gregor Ehrlich

Move the Crowd: Voices and Faces of the Hip-Hop Nation

Mark Eleveld

The Spoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip Hop & The Poetry of a New Generation

Andrew Emery

The Book of Hip-Hop Cover Art

Eminem

Angry Blonde

H2Ed Wiki Books | A-B

manlanders — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:07:45 CST

Robert Alexander & Kim Euell

Playz from the Boom Box Galaxy: An Anthology from the Hip Hop Generation

H. Samy Alim

Real Talk: Language, Culture, and Education in the Hip-Hop Nation

Roc the Mic Right: the Language of Hip Hop Culture

Hilton Als & Darryl A. Turner

White Noise: The Eminem Collection - Review

Animaniacs

A Christmas Plotz: The Hip-Hop Musical (Animaniacs/Book and Cassette)

S. Ayazi-Hashjin

Rap and Hip Hop: The Voice of a Generation

Aye Jay

Gangsta Rap Coloring Book

Houston A. Baker Jr.

Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy - Review

Soren Baker

The History of Rap and Hip Hop - Review

Adisa Banjoko

Lyrical Swords: Hip Hop And Politics In The Mix
Lyrical Swords Volume 2

John Bankston

Bow Wow: Hip Hop Superstars
Ja Rule: Hip Hop Superstars
Missy Elliot: Hip Hop Superstars

David Bamwell & Jairus Green

Breakdance: Hip Hop Handbook

Paul Alfred Baron

Rap. Rhyme and Rhythm: Rapsody in Hip Hop, Rhythm and Rhyme Greatest Unrecorded Rap, Hip Hop, Poetry and Spoken Word Hits

Muhammad Bashir

Raw Law: A Hip Hop Guide to Criminal Justice

Charles H. Beady, Jr., Ph.D.

Don't Be A Fool For Hip Hop: Why I Wrote and Rapped on the CD"Whatever It Takes (2 Motivate 2-Daze Youth)"

Nichole Beattie

Hip Hop Immortals
Hip Hop Immortals: The Remix

Jasmine Beller

Bust a Move #2 (Hip Hop Kidz)

Fonzworth Bentley

Fonzworth Bentley's Guide to Hip Hop Etiquette for Ladies and Gentlemen of All Ages

Arion Berger

Hardcore Rap: A Fusion of Metal, Rock, and Hip Hop - Review

Pastor Mason Betha & Karen Hunter

Revelations: There's a Light After the Lime

Black Artemis

Explicit Content
Picture Me Rollin'

Toni Blackman

Inner-Course: A Plea For Real Love

Coe Booth

Tyrell

Todd Boyd

Am I Black Enough For You?: Popular Culture From The 'Hood & Beyond
The New H.N.I.C.: The Death of Civil Rights and the Reign of Hip-Hop
Young , Black, Rich andFamous: The Rise of the NBA, The Hip Hop Invasion and the Transformation of American Culture

Anthony Bozza

Whatever You Say I Am: The Life and Time of Eminem

Fred ""Fab Five Freddy"" Braithwaite

Fresh Fly Flavor: Words and Phrases of the Hip-Hop Generation

Sally Brook

Hip and Hop

Elizabeth Bush

How to Draw Hip Hop

Yvonne Bynoe

Encyclopedia of Rap and Hip-Hop Culture
Stand and Deliver: Political Activism, Leadership, and Hip Hop Culture

H2Ed Wiki Quotes

manlanders — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:56:48 CST

These quotes are borrowed from Hip Hop artists, writers, and activists. Please give credit where credit is due and familiarize yourself with the artists, writers, and activists who have dropped their science for us. Full text versions of most songs can be found at the Original Hip Hop Lyrics Archive.

Why quotes?

Afrika Bambaataa
"Well hip hop is basically the whole culture of the movement. There's the rap which is a form of hip hop culture. It could be breakdancing, freestyle dancing or whatever type of dancing that's happening now in the Black, Hispanic and White community. It's also the djs and rappers and their dress codes. That is hip hop, meaning the whole culture. Now if you're talking rap music..in rap the music itself is colorless. You can take music from any type of field like soul, funk, heavy metal, jazz, calypso and reggae. As long as it's funky and has that heavy beat and groove. You can take any part of it to make hip hop. Hip hop can deal with the past, the present and it can deal with the future. Now it's what a rapper puts on top of it that will make it a black thing or a white thing or a human thing or a universal thing...The music itself comes from all types of sound. When people are digging for that beat or groove they take from all fields of music. People will say hip hop just comes from soul or rock. It comes from all type of music, but it's based mainly around the toasting element of reggae. That's how rap came about."

Big Pun
"They're scared of us, rather beware than dare to trust/
Always in jail, million dollar bail, left there to rust/
Let's call in order, give ourselves a chance to enhance broader/
Advance to where minorities are the majority voter"
-Capital Punishment

Brother Ali
"There's 8 million ways to stretch words around beats/
and 6 million rappers be sharin' the same three/
but me, takin' the time/
to be creative with mine"

Chuck D
"Your mind is the real estate of the millennium. You are facing a country of mass distractions, really a whole world of mass distractions."

Common
"I start thinking, how many souls hip-hop has affected, how many dead folks this art has resurrected."

De La Soul
"When I climbed I found/
it was hard to find others around/
to point my fingers at - which made me realize the truth/
your biggest suppressor could be your own ego lookin' for an excuse"
-Held Down

Erykah Badu
"The world is mine. When I wake up I dont need nobody telling me the time"

Guru
"Your potential is infinite/
be wise; visualize; witness it"

"Heed the words, it's like ghetto-style proverbs/
the righteous pay a sacrifice to get what they deserve/
cannot afford to be confined to a cell/
brainwaves swell, turnin' a desert to a well"
-Above the Clouds

Inspectah Deck
"But I'm still depressed, and I ask what's it worth?/
Ready to give up so I seek the Old Earth/
Who explained working hard may help you maintain/
to learn to overcome the heartaches and pain"
-Cream

"It's hard to keep control, I bless those who seek a scroll/
Trying to reach a whole nation and break the sleeper hold/
Not a role model, I walk a hard road to follow/
I sold bottles of sorrow then chose poems and novels"
-A Better Tomorrow

Jean Grae
"What happened to us and the bigger picture?/
Don't you know when one of us falls that we all fallin with ya?"

Jeru the Damaja
"Slow like demise I crept on those that slept/
Droppin my ryhme science like I'm Imhotep/
Application of mind over matter/
Made fools scatter, rhymes fatter, minds splatter"
-Mind Spray

Kanye West
"They used to feel invisible/
but now they know they're invincible"

Kelvin Celsius
"K.C.'s an emcee that always keeps conscious/
a square on his way somewhere - so appears rhombus"
-Faux Real

"i believe in the streets where we can be asked for change/
'cause i keep it within reach and it has been my middle name"
-Thug Doubt

KRS-1
"Everybody's bad, and everybody's tough/
but how many people are intelligent enough?"

Lauryn Hill
"Lets love ourselves then we can't fail, to make a better situation/
tomorrow our seeds will grow, all we need is dedication"

"Anything that isn't growin is dead,
so we better be changing"

Malcolm X
"Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself."

Murs
"We gotta fight to show the world that our youth are intelligent/
so keep it gangsta in your CD changer, not your residence"

OC
"I get a rush when I bust some dope lines I wrote/
that maybe somebody'll quote/
that's what I consider real in this field of music/
instead of puttin' brain cells to work they abuse it"
-Time's Up

Rakim
"I got a fetish for puttin' together words and letters/
It ain't all about the chedda so y'all know where my head is"
-I Know

Talib Kweli
"Find reppin' New York on the daily what the deally/
questionin' my teachers like 'Oh really?" so they fail me/
based on fraudulent fact, that's their practice like O'Reilly/
makin' me a hero for the class to come behind me"
-Over the Counter Intelligence

"Mi abuela raised three daughters all by herself/
with no help/
I think about her struggle and I find the strength in myself"
-Get By

Tupac
"...the things that helped me were the things I learned from my mother, from the streets, and reading."

Wise Intelligent
"I'd bulldoze all the projects/
I'd build ghettos of grandeur/
let Jadakiss ask why/
I'm here to provide the answers"
-Another Chance At Life

H2Ed Wiki Lesson Plans

manlanders — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:52:13 CST

About the Jena 6

Arts Edge

The Poetics of Hip Hop

Flocabulary

Hip-Hop U.S. History Lesson Plans
Flocabulary: Hip-Hop Approach to SAT Vocabulary

The Game of Life

A lesson for educators using the book Hoops by Walter Dean Myers.

PBS/Jazz Kidz

Transcending Poetry, Jazz, Rap & Hip Hop

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum

Summer Teacher Institute Lesson Plans
A list of lesson plans created by educators during past Summer Teacher Institutes. These resources are intended to stimulate student interest and creativity, to develop higher order thinking skills and to promote interdisciplinary learning.

Streets of New York

Worksheet and discussion incorporating Streets of New York by Kool G Rap and DJ Polo.

Lessons from The New York Times:

Right About Now . . . and Then: Curating an Exhibition of Hip-Hop History

Boosting Rap's Rep: Examining the Positive Side of Rap and Hip-Hop Music Through Original CD Compilations

Urban Legends: Considering Racial and Cultural Stereotypes in Video Games

Keeping Time: Composing Song Lyrics That Examine Social or Political Issues

Black Power: Organizing a Roundtable of Black Leaders

Making the Old New Again: Creating Modern Scenes in Not-So-Modern Literature

Covering the Issues: Creating Album Covers That Reflect Students' Political and Social Concerns

H2Ed Wiki Journals & Magazines O-Z

Bpress — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:48:36 CST

Ozone - Representing the dirty south Ozone is said to be the voice of southern HiP HoP
www.ozonemag.com

Pound
Journalism for the hip-hop and music community by focusing on the four elements.
www.poundmag.com

Rap Sheet

Rethinking Schools
www.rethinkingschools.org/

Rides - RIDES-MAG.COM

Say It Loud
The voice of urban youth.
www.sayitloudmagazine.com

Scratch - The Blue Print of Hip-Hop

Sister II Sister - http://www.s2smagazine.com/portada.asp

Spine Magazine
Resource for up-to-the-minute Hip-hop related news and information. www.spinemagazine.com

Steppin' Out Magazine - NY's & NJ's #1 Entertainment Magazine
www.steppinoutmagazine.com

Subterranean Information Periodical

Suede

The Ave
Spans the broad spectrum of Hip Hop culture.
www.theavemagazine.com

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education

The Journal of Hip Hop

The Middle Magazine
An entertainment quarterly for urban middle school students.
www.themiddlemag.com

The Source - Covering hip-hop music, culture and politics.
http://www.thesource.com/

Urban Teen Magazine
“Urban Teen Magazine” is a magazine written for and by San Diego local teens (13-18 years old). Urban Teen Magazine is a magazine dedicated to teens with stories that affect them, such as local & current events, music, beauty & fashion, technology, sports, community local heroes, as well as feature articles. It is our Goal and Mission to provide the opportunity for talented local 8th – 12th grade students an outlet to showcase and develop their writing skills, and provide them with a chance to obtain scholarships to pursue their educational aspirations, as well as receive recognition from their community and peers
www.urbanteenmagazine.com

Urban Latino

Vibe

Words Beats & Life
The global journal of hip-hop culture, from the streets to the University. Dedicated to fostering a critical analysis of the relevance, history and meaning of all elements of hip-hop culture.
www.wblinc.org/Index_Journal.htm
Issue 1 showcases of 17 poems from "If Women Ran Hip-Hop" to "Hip-Hop: A Multi-cultural Movement," perfect for the classroom.
http://www.wblinc.org/journal/issue1/poetry/movement.html

XXL - Hip-Hop on a Higher Level !!!

Youth Outlook
www.youthoutlook.org

H2Ed Wiki Journals & Magazines A-M

Bpress — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:39:14 CST

Black Issues Book Review
A forum for the critical discussion of fiction and nonfiction books by black authors, and topics related to the culture and politics of the African Diaspora.
http://www.bibookreview.com/

Color Lines
Includes articles concerning race, culture, and organizing.
www.colorlines.com

Da Juice- Heal The Hood
South Africa's First Hip Hop Magazine
www.healthehood.org

DIVERSE: Issues in Higher Education
The nation's only news magazine dedicated exclusively to minority issues in higher education, Black Issues in Higher Education provides in-depth and up-to-date coverage of the diverse education community.
www.diverseeducation.com

Don Diva - Knowledge is Power!

Dub Magazine
DUB magazine, founded in January 2000, is a North American magazine covering urban, Hip-Hop, and custom car culture and also features celebrities and their vehicles. The magazine also launched the DUB Magazine Custom Auto Show & Concert, a nationwide car show and concert tour that spans 16 US cities. DUB now has many licensed goods that include Jada Toys' DUB City die-cast and radio controlled vehicles, DUB Edition car accessories, and Rockstar Games "Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition" video game. www.dubmag.net

Edutopia
www.edutopia.org

Elemental
Hip-Hop music, real fashion, intelligent discourse, and next-level photography. www.elementalmag.com

Elementz of Life
Coming from the American Bible Society to reach at risk youth of the Hip Hop culture with a positive message.

Essence - Essence is an American fashion, lifestyle, and entertainment magazine and was also the first monthly magazine for African American women between the ages of 18 and 49.
www.essence.com

F.E.D.S.

Giant Robot Magazine

Latina Magazine
www.latiina.com

Mass Appeal Magazine - a bi-monthly urban lifestyle magazine. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Mass Appeal has been delivering street-savvy culture to the masses since 1996.
www.massappealmag.com

Mugshot Magazine

Murderdog

Hip Hop America

akht — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:49:39 CST

Hip Hop America

By Nelson George

Genre: Nonfiction

About: From the back cover: "Nelson George -- 'the most knowledgeable hip hop writer on the planet' (Rolling Stone) -- gives a first-person tour through the history of hip hop from its roots in the '70s to its present standing as a cultural force that influences everything from movies to fashion, advertising to sports. George -- himself a longtime music and cultural critic and frequent player in hip hop's development -- examines hip hop as a music, a style, a business, a myth, and a moral force. It's the story of a society-altering collision between black youth culture and the mass media, a story that touches on the themes of drugs, incarceration, basketball, entrepreneurship, technology, and language -- and it's all VERY big business."

Inside: "This story begins as another is ending. The first story is full of optimism and exalted ideas about humanity's ability to change through political action and moral argument. The next story, the plot we're living right now, is defined by cynicism, sarcasm, and self-involvement raised to art. The turning point was the early '70s. Dashikis, platform shoes, and Richard Nixon were still in vogue. The phase of the civil rights movement led by Dr. King, with its philosophy of nonviolence, its marchers in starched white shirts and narrow ties, was already literally long dead. The succeeding phase of angry, burn-baby-burn rhetoric was itself receding as heroin's vicious grip, the mercenary diligence of FBI informants, and a philosophy of benign neglect replaced liberal guilt as the engine of our government's policy toward the poor. Street agitation for social change was over. Now African Americans could sit at the front of the bus and downstairs at movie theaters. Now we could vote all over these United States. Now black politicians set their sights on controlling City Hall in big cities and small towns. Now ambitious black graduates of white colleges began slipping into corporate America's awkward, monied embrace."

Pg. 3

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Roc the Mic Right: The Language of Hip Hop Culture

akht — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:49:04 CST

Roc The Mic Right: The Language of Hip Hop Culture

By H. Samy Alim

Genre: Non-Fiction, Linguistics

About: Official Product Description: Roc the Mic Right is the first in-depth, book-length analysis of the most pervasive yet least examined aspect of Hip Hop Culture - its language. Hip Hop Culture has captured the minds of youth "all around the world, from Japan to Amsterdam" (like the homie Kurupt say), shaping youth identities, styles, attitudes, languages, fashions, and both physical and political stances. Written in both "Hip Hop Nation Language" and "academic discourse," Alim takes the reader on a journey through Hip Hop's inventive linguistic landscape, deconstructing its discourse and poetics, while highlighting relationships between language, identity and power (from the groundbreaking exploration of the Muslim "transglobal Hip Hop ummah" to the critical study of Black Language in White public space). What sets this book apart from many on the subject is Alim's extensive ethnographic fieldwork and his close contact with the Hip Hop community, from multiplatinum superstars to street-level, underground heads. Drawing upon an impressively broad range of theories and methodologies, from sociolinguistics and anthropology to cultural studies and poetics, Alim places the Hip Hop artists - such as Mos Def, Pharoahe Monch, Ras Kass, JT the Bigga Figga, Eve and Juvenile - in the center by viewing them as interpreters of their own culture. The result is a fascinating insider's view of what can arguably be referred to as the most profound cultural and musical movement to rock the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Inside: "It ain't even necessary for me to say that this scholar is not alone in his misguided critique of Hip Hop culture. He is but one of a legion of folks who are still sleepin on what some critics see as the most profound lyrical and musical movement to rock the twentieth century. The Hip Hop Cultural Movement has captured the minds of youth 'all around the world, from Japan to Amsterdam' (like the homie Kurupt say) as it 'whirlwinds through cities, from Chicago to Cairo' (like the god Afu-Ra say) shaping youth identities, styles, attitudes, languages, fashions, and both physical and political stances. Still, many scholars who comment on Hip Hop Culture do little more than reproduce public discourse. There are a variety of reasons for that and much of the confusion is surely due to a complex array of class and racial politics. However, when we consider the research methodology informing the critiques, it becomes clear that far too many commentators are simply too sociall distanted from the locus of Hip Hop cultural activity -- the street."

Pg. 4

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Tyrell

akht — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:48:36 CST

Tyrell

By Coe Booth

Genre: Young Adult, Fiction

About: Tyrell is about a young man figuring out a way to take care of his family and himself despite poverty and a father in prison. The story is told from Tyrell's point of view, in his language. Young and reluctant readers will read this.

Inside: "It's nice being like this, here in this room. I been coming to this apartment forever, and this living room ain't never changed. That's what I like 'bout it. Ms. Jenkins still got that same ol' console TV that ain't never worked and the little 19-inch TV on top of it. She got the same couch and chair with the same plastic slipcovers on them, and the same Jesus and Mary paintings covering the water stains on the wall. And everything is real clean like it always is. That's another think I like 'bout Ms. Jenkins apartment. When I'm here, I could forget I'm in the projects."

Pg. 4

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Playz from the Boom Box Galaxy: An Anthology from the Hip Hop Generation

akht — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:48:14 CST

Playz from the Boom Box Galaxy: An Anthology from the Hip Hop Generation

By Robert Alexander & Kim Euell

Genre: Theater

About: Playz from the Boom Box Galaxy collects works by many of the most exciting and influential hip-hop theater artists performing today. These young artists are mixing music, movement, rap, spoken word, and visual design to create an entirely new and essential theater by and for the hip-hop generation. As described by Harry J. Elam Jr., a leading scholar in the field, "This is a theater that in its form and content recycles elements from the past, but with a new spirit of possibility and a new urgency that speaks to the racial and cultural hybrid of today."

Inside: Welcome to the spoken world / Unspoken heard / Unfocused blurred/
A bird of youth / A soot / A truth / A muse of mind / You are divine / Feel me?"

Marc Bamuthi Joseph, from Word Becomes Flesh

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Hip Hop Matters

akht — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:47:32 CST

Hip Hop Matters: Politic, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement

By S. Craig Watkins

Genre: Non-Fiction

About: "With Hip Hop Matters, S. Craig Watkins establishes himself as one of the most insightful observers an critics of hip hop culture." (Michael Eric Dyson)

Avoiding the easy definitions and caricatures that tend to celebrate or condemn the "hip hop generation," Hip Hop Matters focuses on the fierce and far-reaching battles being waged in politics, pop culture, and academe to assert greater control over the movement. At stake, Watkins argues, is the impact hip hop will have in the lives of the young people who live and breathe the culture.
The story unfolds through revealing profiles, looking at such players as Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, widely recognized as America's first hip-hop mayor; Chuck D, the self-described "rebel without a pause" who championed the Internet as a way to keep socially relevant rap music alive; and young activists who represent hip hop's insurgent voice. Watkins also presents incisive analysis of the corporate takeover of hip hop; the culture's march into America's colleges and universities; and the rampant misogyny that undermines the movement's progressive claims.
Ultimately, we see how the struggle for hip hop reverberates with a larger world: global media consolidation and conglomeration; racial and demographic flux; generational cleavages; the reinvention of the pop music industry; and the ongoing struggle to enrich the lives of ordinary youth.

Inside: "The purists in the movement believe that in the midst of a commercial explosion hip hop has lost its edge, its spirit of innovation, and its capacity for inspiration. But this view assumes that hip hop has only one destiny, only one true historic course. As the voices, people, and places that define hip hop grow more diverse, the movement continues to develop many different identities and interests. Despite a fascinating history and undeniable influence in America's pop cultural, poliical, and intellectual life, the struggle for hip hop, amazingly, has only just begun."

Pg. 256

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No Disrespect

akht — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:47:19 CST

No Disrespect

By Sister Souljah

Genre: Autobiography, Non-Fiction

About: From the back cover: "Rapper, activist, and hip-hop rebel, Sister Souljah possesses the most passionate and articulate voice to emerge from the projects. Now she uses that unmistakable voice to deliver what is at once a fiercely candid autobiography and a survival manual for any African American woman who wants to keep her heart open and her integrity intact in 1990s America.

Each chapter of No Disrespect is devoted to someone who made a difference in Sister Souljah's life - from the mother who raised her to the men who educated (and mis-educated) her about love - and each bares a controversial truth about the black condition in America: the disintegration of families; the unremitting combat between the sexes; and the thousand and one ways in which racism continues to circumscribe the ways African American people see themselves and treat one another. The result is an outspoken and often courageous rejoinder to the pieties of race, class, and gender by a writer who can be wise, bawdy, brutally funny, and as sensitve as a lightning rod in a thunderstorm."

Inside: "I never said I was an angel. Nor am I innocent or holy like the Virgin Mary. What I am is natural and serious and as sensitive as an open nerve on an ice cube. I'm a young black sister with an unselfish heart who overdosed on love long ago. My closest friends consider me soft-spoken. Others say I have a deadly tongue. And while it's true that I have a spicy attitude like most of the ghetto girls I know, I back it up with a quick, precise, and knowledgeable mind. My memory runs way back and I'm inclined to remind people of the things they'd most like to forget."

From A Note to My Readers

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H2Ed Wiki Books | F-J

akht — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:44:00 CST

Erica Farber

Post-Bop Hip Hop: Digable Planets to A Tribe Called Quest

S.H. Fernando

The New Beats: Exploring the Music, Culture and Attitudes of Hip Hop

Antwone Q. Fisher

Finding Fish: A Memoir

Juan Flores

From Bomba to Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culutre and Latino Identity

Paulo Freire

Pedagogy Of The Oppressed

Doug E. Fresh

Think Again

Murray Foreman

The 'Hood Comes First: Race, Space, and Place in Rap and Hip Hop

Murray Foreman & Mark Anthony Neal

That's the Joint: The Hip Hop Studies Reader

Jim Fricke & Charlie Ahearn

Yes Yes Y'all: Oral History of Hip Hop's First Decade (The Experience Music Project)

Nicholas Ganz

Graffiti World: Street Art From Five Continents

Alex Gee

Jesus and the Hip-Hop Prophets: Spiritual Insights from Lauryn Hill and Tupac

Nelson George

Buppies, B-Boys, Baps, and Bohos: Notes on Post-Soul Black Culture
Night Work: A Novel
Hip Hop America

Shawn A. Ginwright

Black In School: Afrocentric Reform, Urban Youth, And The Promise of Hip Hop Culture

Walt Goodridge

Change the Game: How to Start, Run, and Really Make Money with Your Own Independent Hip Hop Record Label

Jared Green

Rap and Hip Hop

Stacy Gueraseva

Def Jam, Inc. - Russell Simmons, Rick Rubin, and the Extraordinary Story of the World's Most Influential Hip-Hop Label

Steven Hager

Hip Hop: The Illustrated History of Break Dancing, Rap Music and Graffiti

Thomas Hatch

A History of Hip-Hop: The Roots of Rap

Essex Hemphill

Ceremonies

Carolivia Herron

Nappy Hair

Leslie Heywood & Jennifer Drake (Eds.)

Third Wave Agenda: Being Feminist, Doing Feminism

Patricia Thandi Hicks-Harper

Body Parts Rap 4 Kids: An Activity Book 4 Hip-Hop Kids

Patricia Thandi Hicks-Harper, PhD & Billo Mahmood Harper

Hip Hop's Influence Within Youth Popular Culture: A Catalyst for Reaching America's Youth With Substance Abuse Prevention Messages

Selwyn Seyfu Hinds

Gunshots in My Cook-Up: Bits and Bites from a Hip-Hop Caribbean Life

Danny Hoch

Jails, Hospitals & Hip Hop and Some People

Devone Holt

Hip Hop Slop

Ice T & Heidi Siegmund

The Ice Opinion

Toyomi Igus

i see the rhythm

Robert Jackson

The Last Black Mecca: Hip Hop - A Black Cultural Awareness Phenomena and its African American Community

Kenji Jasper

Dark
Dakota Grand

Mark Jenkins & Jeff O'Connell

The Jump Off: 60 Days to a Hip-Hop Hard Body

Hip Hop High School

akht — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:39:27 CST

Hip Hop High School

By Alan Lawrence Sitcomer

Genre: Fiction, Young Adult

About: From the author of The Hoopster, comes it's sequel that follows the life of Andre's little sister Theresa (known as "Tee-ay"). Tee-ay takes us on her journey from 10th grade through high school graduation, zooming in on her academic life and her relationships with friends, family and fellas. From Booklist: "Although Sitomer explores the realities and challenges of urban African American adolescence, he strikes a fair balance between serious issues and more lighthearted fare, writing in a smart, conversational voice loaded with wit, rhythm, and energy."

Inside: "My life is weird. It's like I speak two languages. In my head I talk a normal kind of English, but when I chat with my friends or any of my peers, I rap to them in this kind of ghetto slang. It's like I purposely misprounounce words and disobey all them rules of grammar. Like, I never say "with." I say "wit." And I don't say "that." I say "dat." And I sort of slur my "waht's up" too and turn into "wuzzup." One of my favorite things to say to my friends is, "Wuzzup wit' dat?" It makes me sound cool.
Actually, it makes me fit in.
And fittin' in 'round here is huge. Your clothes got to be fresh, your attitude has to be stylin', and if you talk too proper, you might get jumped by a crew of four or five. That's because people will think you're trying to act white. They'll take you down for that.
We got all kinds of unspoken rules like this 'round here and people who violate them end up paying the price. It may not make sense to an outsider, it may not be reasonable or rational, but it is what it is and only stupid people don't play along.
And I ain't stupid. At least not like that I ain't."

Pg. 5

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The Rose That Grew From Concrete

akht — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:36:23 CST

The Rose That Grew From Concrete

By Tupac Shakur

(Preface by Afeni Shakur, Forward: Tupac, C U in Heaven by Nikki Giovanni, Introduction by Leila Steinberg)

Genre: Poetry

About: This powerful and intimate collection of poetry, penned by Shakur at age 19, truly shows the raw, introspective, sensitive and honest spirit of this literary talent. Through the dynamic combination of youth and wisdom he uses the power of words to express his thoughts on love, relationships, freedom, democracy, drugs, violence, and hope in nearly 100 poems. Educator, mentor and friend to Shakur, Leila Steinberg, states in the book's introduction that, "Tupac felt that through art we could incite a new revolution that incorporated the heart, mind, body, spirit and soul. He wanted his art to instill honesty, integrity and respect." Published four years after his death, The Rose That Grew From Concrete confirms that Tupac Shakur continues to have the power to educate all of us.

Inside: "Did u hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete
Proving nature's laws wrong it learned 2 walk without having feet
Funny it seems but by keeping its dreams it learned 2 breathe fresh air
Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared!"

"The Rose That Grew From Concrete", pg 3

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akht — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:51:02 CST

Barney Saltzberg

Hip, Hip, Hooray Day!: A Hip & Hop Story

Joseph Schloss

Making Beats: The Art of Sample-Based Hip-Hop

Scott Schroedl

Hip Hop and Rap: Drum Beats & Loops

Jamel Shabazz

A Time Before Crack

Shaggy

Hope

Omar Shaheed

Hip-Hop Land

Tupac Shakur

The Rose That Grew From Concrete

Peter Shapiro

The Rough Guide to Hip-Hop
The Rough Guide to Hip-Hop 2

William Shaw

Westside: Young Men and Hip Hop in L.A.

Hashim Shomari

From the Underground: Hip Hop Culture as an Agent of Social Change

Joseph Simmons with Curtis L. Taylor

It's Like That: A Spiritual Memoir

Sister Souljah

No Disrespect
The Coldest Winter Ever

Alan Sitomer

Hip Hop High School

Alan Sitomer & Michael Cirelli

Hip Hop Poetry And The Classics For The Classroom: Connecting Our Classic Curriculum To Hip Hop Poetry Through Standards-Based Language Arts Instruction

Irene Smalls

Don't Say Ain't

Tavis Smiley

Doing What's Right: How to Fight For What You Believe - And Make A Difference

Efrem Smith & Phil Jackson

The Hip-Hop Church: Connecting With the Movement Shaping Our Culture

Snoop Dogg with Davin Seay

Tha Doggfather: The Times, Trials, and Hardcore Truth of Snoop Dogg

James G. Spady, Charles G. Lee, and H. Samy Alim

Street Conscious Rap

Lois Stavsky

A to Z: The Book of Rap & Hip Hop Slang

Karrine Steffans & Karen Hunter

Confessions of A Video Vixen

Gary Taylor

Buying Whiteness: Race, Culture, and Identity from Columbus to Hip Hop

David Thigpen

Jam Master Jay: The Heart of Hip Hop

Cynthia Tood & Cassandra Johnston

ABC Rappin' Zebra/Garden Party (Sing Me A Song Series)

David Toop

The Rap Attack: African Jive to New York Hip-Hop
Rap Attack 2: African Rap to Global Hip-Hop
Rap Attack 3: African Rap to Global Hip-Hop

Nichelle Tramble

The Dying Ground: a Hip-Hop Noir Novel

Carlton Usher

A Rhyme is a Terrible Thing to Waste: Hip Hop Culture and the Creatation of a Political Culture

Mika Vaisanen

And It Don't Stop: Hip Hop Photography

Vanilla Ice

Ice by Ice

Vibe

Hip Hop Divas

David Vozar

MC Turtle and the Hip Hop Hare: A Happenin' Rap

Gini Wade

Curtis the Hip-Hop Cat

Tshombe R. Walker

The Hip-Hop Worldview: An Afrocentric Analysis

Oliver Wang

Classic Material: The Hip-Hop Album Guide

S. Craig Watkins

Representing: Hip Hop Culture and the Production of Black Cinema
Hip Hop Matters: Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement

Sara Weir & Constance Faulkner (Eds.)

Voices of A New Generation: A Feminist Anthology

Alonzo Westbrook

HIPHOPTIONARY: The Dictionary Of Hip Hop Terminology

William Upski Wimsatt

Bomb The Suburbs
No More Prisons

Robert F. Williams

Negroes With Guns

Wendy Williams

Wendy's Got the Heat
The Wendy Williams Experience: Queen of Radio

Elliot Wilson, Chairman Mao, Gabriel Alvarez, Brent Rollins & Sacha Jenkins

Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists

Andrew Witten & Michael White

Condi White Style Master General: The Life of Graffiti Artist Dondi White

The RZA- The Wu-Tang Manual - Enter the 36 Chambers

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Hip Hop Organizations

1kimberlyjo — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:11:43 CDT

Future Of Real Music & Entertainment (FOR ME Inc.)
The Future Of Real Music & Entertainment (FOR ME) is a music business education youth program for teens. The program provides education and business opportunities for youth who plan to pursue a career in the entertainment industry, it focuses on the business, creative, and technical aspects of the industry and has proven to be hugely successful in its first year of existence. FOR ME provides after school, outreach and summer programs in the Metro Atlanta area.
http://www.theformeprogram.ning.com

Bay Area Video Coalition
The Bay Area Video Coalition, or BAVC ("bay-vac"), was launched in 1976 as a way to make emerging video technology accessible to independent film makers. Today, with that mission still at its core, BAVC has evolved into a community media arts resource center.
http://www.bavc.org/

The DJ Project
The DJ Project, a youth focused venture of Horizons Unlimited, is an arts and entrepreneurship youth program grounded in hip-hop culture. In 2000 the DJ Project began to bring culturally relevant educational and technology training opportunities to San Francisco Bay Area youth. The DJ Project uses music to nurture the creative spirit of disconnected youth. It imparts credible, realistic, and practical information about the entertainment industry and provides training in emerging digital technologies. The DJ Project currently operates after-school, project-driven arts and music programs, as well as hip-hop employment and entrepreneurship modules at four different sites in the San Francisco Bay Area.
http://www.thedjproject.com/

Flipping The Script
Just Think teaches young people to lead healthy, responsible, and independent lives in a culture highly impacted by media. Founded in 1995 as a concerned response to the ever-increasing deluge of messages youth receive from television, radio, film, print media, electronic games, and the Internet, Just Think has successfully created and delivered media arts and technology education locally, nationally, and internationally for ten years. Just Think’s programs have reached nearly 7,000 students, teachers, and parents.
http://www.flippingthescript.org

Movement Strategy Center
Movement Strategy Center (MSC) was created in 1999 to actively support movements that aim to increase youth and adult participation in social justice issues. MSC uses a variety of tools to achieve its objectives: collective visioning and mapping, formal and informal collaborations among organizations and joint strategies to develop stronger and more effective movements.
http://www.movementstrategy.org/