The collection was curated by Adeerya Johnson and includes flyers, fashion, oral histories, photographs, jewelry, handwritten lyrics, and even food. Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop ...

As it celebrates its 50th birthday, we are mapping hip-hop's story on a local level, with more than a dozen city-specific histories of the music and culture. Click here to see the entire list.

She made and distributed flyers inviting people to the recreation ... at that party at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, many say that hip-hop was born. In the decades since, the Black and Latinx youth ...