It is 50 years since DJ Kool Herc's 'back to school jam' in New York's West Bronx kick-started a movement and birthed a whole culture, writes Rebecca Laurence. On a hot August night in 1973, Clive ...

Nearly 50 years ago, on August 11, 1973, some teenagers threw a back-to-school party in the rec room of their apartment building in the Bronx. And presiding over it all was deejay Kool Herc.

Cindy Campbell thought the most fun way to upgrade her wardrobe was to throw a back-to-school party with her brother, DJ Kool Herc, on Aug. 11, 1973 in the Bronx.

On this day in hip-hop, Aug. 11, DJ Kool Herc hosted his first back-to-school party in the Bronx, N.Y., which is credited as the birthplace of hip-hop.

In August 1973, an 18-year-old DJ Kool Herc played his sister's back-to-school fundraiser in the rec room of their apartment building. But he and his friends sparked something much bigger.

What began as a back-to-school party held by Cindy Campbell and her brother DJ Kool Herc, turned into the moment when the global phenomenon of hip-hop music was created. By Okla Jones · Updated ...

On this day in 1973, a young lady named Cindy Campbell held a back-to-school birthday party in the rec room of 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, an apartment building in the Morris Heights neighborhood of the ...

The speech started with LL Cool J looking back on how Kool Herc kicked off the origins of hip-hop by DJ’ing a party for his sister, Cindy Campbell. She was doing it to earn money for back-to ...

DJ Kool Herc, who’s credited with birthing hip hop during his 1970s parties at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, ... It was 11 August 1973 and Cindy Campbell was throwing a back to school party.

He and his sister Cindy Campbell said they never though their Bronx back-to-school recreation room party in 1973, where Cindy made the party flyers and an 18-year-old Herc spun records, would be ...

This summer marks a vital anniversary in the history of American music. Fifty years ago, on Aug. 11, 1973, a Jamaican-born DJ named Kool Herc helped his sister throw a back-to-school party in the ...

DJ Kool Herc, whose “Back to School” jam sparked Hip-Hop as a movement, will be honored by his native land, Jamaica, with its highest award.