"If Hip Hop Can Be Used 2 Market Products...
Then How Do We Use Hip Hop To Market Prevention and education 4 good?"
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Celebrating Simms at the
Lucy F. Simms Continuing Education Center
The “Celebrating Lucy F. Simms” digital exhibit highlights the remarkable life and legacy of Lucy Frances Simms: an educator, community leader, and formerly enslaved woman who dedicated her life to teaching and uplifting generations of students in the Shenandoah Valley.
Developed in collaboration with James Madison University and the Shenandoah Black Heritage Project, the exhibit explores Simms’ lasting impact on education, community building, and African American history in the region. Through archival materials, storytelling, and historical research, the exhibit preserves and shares her inspiring story with new audiences.
YPCI Collaboration
Youth Popular Culture Institute, Inc. is proud to have contributed to this important project through the creative work of Billo Harper, a film and multimedia producer with YPCI. Billo collaborated with project partners as a producer and documentarian, helping develop multimedia storytelling elements that bring Lucy F. Simms’ story to life through film and visual documentation.
His work supports the exhibit’s mission of connecting history, culture, and community through engaging digital media.
Explore the Exhibit
Visitors can experience the full digital exhibit and learn more about Lucy F. Simms’ extraordinary legacy here:
National Prevention Network Conference
Workshop Session 3: Hip-Hop 2 Prevent Substance Use & HIV (H2P):
An Evidence-Based Hip-Hop Development Program 4 Prevention
Presented by P. Thandi Hicks Harper
This engaging, multimedia session was designed for prevention stakeholders working with youth and highlighted the powerful role hip-hop can play in successful prevention efforts. The evidence-based program, Hip-Hop 2 Prevent Substance Abuse and HIV (H2P), was showcased as an innovative approach to reach adolescents. Faces 4 Change was also highlighted during this session, sharing how our coalition is working locally to reduce youth substance use and create positive opportunities for young people.
New Publication Release
"I was commissioned by the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association (www.frederickdouglassmha.org) to lecture on the topic: Frederick Douglass in the Eras of Hip-Hop. The Association was enacted by the United States Congress in the year 1900 to preserve the memory and legacy of Frederick Douglass, and my lecture took place in Washington, DC on the grounds where the honorable and noble statesman lived from 1874 until he died in 1895.
Prior to the lecture, I visited the Frederick Douglass House so that I could reap his spiritual and rhetorical energy, putting me in position to best articulate his 19th century point of view to a 21st century audience. The Xennials, Millennials, and Generations Z and Alpha would likely be more familiar with Hip-Hop culture than with the rhetorical genius, abolitionist, civic educator, and former enslaved. I imagined, however, that the Silent and Baby Boomer audience would be able to finish my sentences pertaining to the legend, and just might recognize familiar nuances in my Black oratorical style of social movement messaging. In any event, I was prepared to connect the diverse audiences."
Howard University Hosts 2nd Annual Hip-Hop Studies Conference
Dr. Hicks Harper was invited to speak & learn from other HipHop scholars and to be in community on the grounds of her alma mater at Howard University's HipHop Studies Conference!
H2P Bergen County NJ Training
NEW RELEASE
CADCA's Article
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