It is both an online chat and offline movement dedicated to bringing scholars, teachers, students, and other stakeholders together to engage across a number of topics related to hip-hop and education.
Organized by Christopher Emdin and Tim Jones, #HipHopEd has offered discussions, professional development, coaching and training to educators and school leaders across the globe.
[7] HHDS, as practiced by Georgia Institute of Technology professor Joycelyn Wilson, can be defined as advancing the broader field of Hip Hop studies with design research.
It wants to understand how the aesthetic practices, creative sensibilities, techno-pedagogical foundations, and cross-industry adaptations of the art form are used as context cues and style norms when ideating, implementing, and building cross-cultural interactive media platforms.
[8] Artist & educator Chad Harper founded Hip Hop Saves Lives[9] as an extra-curricular workshop for youths in schools across New York City.
[11][citation needed] HBCU, Howard University hosted a panel in 2006 to discuss the option of creating a hip-hop studies minor within the upcoming years.
Cornell University Library is the home of the largest national archive on hip-hop culture, documenting its birth and growth by preserving thousands of recordings, flyers, photographs, and other artifacts.