DuEwaWorld News! by DuEwa Frazier

The Mosaic Literary Conference presents creative ways for keeping books and reading valuable sources of knowledge and creativity. This day of professional-development workshops will help educators incorporate literature into existing curricula to further explore course work that focuses on cultures, history, and social studies. Early Registration: $30 Regular Registration: $50 Registration includes gift bag, continental breakfast, and lunch Conference Date: November 7, 2009 Location: Hostos Community College 450 Grand Concourse at 149th St., Bronx, NY

When you reminisce over hip hop, where do your thoughts take you? Do you think about the night you went to the roller rink with your friends and you heard NWA's "Express Yourself" pumping loud from the DJ booth, inspiring you to dance to the 70's beats in the song? Or maybe you think about the times you chilled out at the park in your car, with your boyfriend or girlfriend when L.L. Cool J.'s "I Need Love" played on the radio? If you're like me, you may reminisce about your college days: the parties in the student union, the walks with your friends across the bridge to the nearby store, the sorority and fraternity step shows. All of these memories have hip hop wrapped around them. We lived, loved and laughed, riding on the beats of songs by old school and new school hip hop artists. Within the pages of The Message: 100 Life Lessons From Hip Hop's Greatest Songs , author Felicia Pride shares similar memories with us and invokes our hip hop laced ...