Momma’s Hip Hop Kitchen: Celebrating Women, Community, Love and Hip-Hop, 10 Years and Counting

Momma’s Hip Hop Kitchen, an annual family-friendly community event which focuses on the empowerment and celebration of young women and girls through hip-hop music and culture, returns to Hostos Community College in the Bronx for its ten year anniversary on March 4, 2017.

The all-ages exhibition attracts many members of the community, including families and children, as well as music lovers from all over who come to join community organizers, activists, local vendors and organizations for an afternoon-long networking and concert event which showcases exceptional talent from the New York area and around the country.

Each yearly event tends to revolve around a theme of vital importance to the communities that fuel the Kitchen, and have included issues such as improving health awareness, police brutality and violence against women. It is that sort of issue-driven underpinning which demonstrates the real mission of MHHK — to provide a safe space platform for young women who are often tragically underrepresented to fully express themselves and uplift each other, while simultaneously demonstrating the continuing power of hip-hop music and culture to foster a sense of pride, fuel activism and unite communities — aspects that are often drowned out by powerful forces peddling mainstream entertainment fare, often riddled with negativity and misogyny.

The result has been a consistently powerful gathering of artists and advocates from multiple genres, performers that include women and girls from various walks of life, showcasing talent and a unique, welcoming sisterhood that reaches out from the stage, into and beyond the audience, enveloping all with messages of strength, self-love, pride and unforgettable inspiration.

Momma’s Hip Hop Kitchen has been providing “Black (and Brown) girl magic” long before it became a catchphrase or hashtag, and the event has become a crown jewel of New York’s cultural landscape, earning a proclamation from the Bronx itself, but more importantly, winning the hearts and touching the souls of attendees for the past ten years.

The tenth annual Momma’s Hip Hop Kitchen is Saturday, March 4, 2017 from 2 p.m. through 5 p.m. at the Hostos Center for the Arts and Culture at 450 Grand Concourse (at 149th St.) in the Bronx. It is a free, all ages event.

For more information, visit www.mhhk.org.