Hip Hop

Turn Up the Value: Hub Music, Vol. 1

This week is the Fifth (and final) Friday of our Harlem Hub music pilot. Join us to help record “Turn Up the Value,” written by Hub students. Shout out to emcee / music educator Randy Mason for holding it down and turning it up! @hiphoppinheart Writing and recording session with the teens at @nycthrive #HarlemHub…

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Overachievers

[Original Post, 2012] It’s not often that students hear themselves called “Overachievers.” Even less often do they see themselves that way. Yet that’s exactly what fifteen 6th graders from I.S. 8 in Jamaica Queens saw after completing the “I Am Now” performing arts based student leadership club at their school this year. “I Am Now”…

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