Dr Raphael Travis

Associate Professor, School of Social Work, College of Applied Arts, Texas State University

Arts & Culture

Hip Hop’s healing power

Born from marginalised communities as a force of self-expression, Hip Hop gets an unfairly bad rap for its confronting lyrics, but its power to promote mental and social health is going mainstream

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