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By Kirsten Ferguson/For The Leader-Herald Fifty years ago this Friday, DJ Kool Herc threw a back-to-school party at 1520 Sedgwick Ave. in the Bronx a moment in time now regarded as the birth of hip-hop. Events planned around the world this summer commemorate this important musical and cultural