Hip Hop Harry

Hip Hop Harry is an American children's television series created by Claude Brooks that aired on Discovery Kids and TLC as part of the Ready Set Learn!

[2] The program uses age-appropriate hip hop music and dance to teach social, educational, physical and creative skills.

[citation needed] The cast performed their song Move Those Feet at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on April 25–26, 2009 on the Target children's stage on the campus of UCLA.

[7] In 2020, Hip Hop Harry had a resurgence in popularity on social media soon after people began to protest following the murder of George Floyd.

Clips of the "Hip Hop Harry Dance Circle" portion of the show first resurfaced on Twitter when director and author Matthew A. Cherry posted a short video of this sequence in response to reports that all four of the officers involved in the death had been arrested.

[8][9] The video went viral and many across social media continued to post several dancing clips from the show in celebration of victories in the fight for police reform and racial equality.

Hip Hop Harry performing at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on the UCLA campus