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For seven summers I have taught camp in hot, hot New Orleans. Mostly indoors, mine is a writing class disguised as a music class; students aged five to 12 improve their literacy via songwriting — ...

Gone are the days when parents had to hope for a meeting with a record label to get their rapping kid a chance at fame. Through social media, moms and dads have leveled the playing field so that even ...

FAYETTEVILLE, North Carolina -- Jasiah Robinson, 8, is an aspiring rapper, but she's not singing about how much money she has in her piggy bank. She's picking up the mic because she wants to encourage ...