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Getting Down With Kendrick In The Classroom

What happens when you tie popular culture in with historical and controversial literary texts?

Teacher Brian Mooney decided to find out. He used Kendrick Lamar’s album To Pimp a Butterfly with his freshman English students as they studied Toni Morrison’s novel about a young black girl who yearns to have blue eyes called The Bluest Eye.

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CulturaMonica Rivera
Save USC’s El Centro Chicano

The University of Southern California is a private university and the students pay tuition to attend this prestigious school. That should mean that Nikias and his administration work for the students. So why do the student voices remain unheard? USC is planning to relocate El Centro Chicano from its home of 33 years in the United University Church in the summer of 2013.

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CulturaMonica Rivera