B. Love
  • Home
  • About
  • Publications
  • Videos
  • Events
  • Hip Hop Ed for Social Justice
  • Contact
Currently viewing the tag: "Community Building"

Graffiti & Tags: Descriptive Language & Community Building

By B. Love On October 24, 2012 · Add Comment
Fam, This is Mike Cassidy here. Dr. Love attended a conference this weekend and left me in charge of Real Talk. I taught a lesson that linked graffiti to storytelling, descriptive language, and community. To capture the students’ interest we watched Grandmaster Melle Mel’s “Beat Street Breakdown” (First 1:30 of video). We then moved into our afternoon cypher. [...]
[Continue Reading...]
  • Follow us on Facebook

  • Media and Other Publishings

    • Hip Hop’s Li’l Sistas Speak
    • Crunk Feminist Collective: Learning Community with Black Girls
    • Making Hip-Hop and Black Feminism Tangible for Girls
    • The Northerner: Love’s passion inspires students
  • Recent Posts

    • The Art of Storyboarding
    • Knowledge of Self, Stereotypes & Community Building
    • Hip Hop, Democratic Ed & Travyon Martin
    • Hieroglyphics, Hip Hop & Urban Art
    • Kindezi Final Project
  • Cloud

    african drum after school anti-bullying art brainstorming breakdancing Capoeira Common Core Standards Common Core Writing Standards Community Building Creative Writing cypher Descriptive language education Express Yourself force Graffiti griots high standards hip hop history James Brown Knowledge of self momentum music Persuasive Writing physics power moves Show and Prove social justice Tags velocity youth Zines
  • Home
  • About
  • Publications
  • Videos
  • Events
  • Hip Hop Ed for Social Justice
  • Contact
Youth Poetry Slam tonight at the Apex Museum. 6-9 Last slam before Brave New Voices in Chicago (summer 2013) http://t.co/gktBcE52mo  — blovesoulpower
Build a website with PageLines