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Jewish Academy Schooled on Hip Hop Culture

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slideshow It wasn’t what some might assume is a typical afternoon at Hillel Academy.

First, the high school boys gathered for afternoon prayers.

Then, they heard a presentation on the history and philosophy of hip-hop music.

As part of the Lunchtime Lecture Series, a 2-year-old program that hosts a variety of professionals to the school to broaden the horizons of high school students, Hillel hosted Luqman Abdus-Salaam and Amos Levy from the Arts Greenhouse to talk about “Dispelling Hip-Hop Myths and Understanding Hip-Hop as a Multicultural Practice.”

The Arts Greenhouse is a free program offered through Carnegie Mellon University where Pittsburgh teenagers can learn about the music, technology and history of hip-hop.

For around 45 minutes Wednesday, Oct. 21, Levy and Abdus-Salaam took the students on a quick slideshow tour of the Bronx in the 1970s that lead to regular people of many backgrounds coming together around a new cultural form called hip-hop.

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