Wonder: What can we learn here about sending our students to college? Why is it that race and ethnicity still play a role in college admissions?

Summarizing: affirmative action never was passed, but Texas took on another role where they now only admitted students based on their merit.

Connection: I think this could relate back MLK's speech because he is asking us to not judge based on the color of our skin, but by our character.

Visualization: I can imagine just walking on campus and not seeing much diversity while on campus.

Wonder: I wonder why this student was denied admission to this school? What could be UT's reasoning?

Summarizing: In the end, the black community feels targeted and fails to have a voice in which people will listen to.

Wonder: How can there be progressive movements if there is no respect for one another?

Visualization: I can picture them speaking to an officer and neither of them showing one another a sign of respect. Reflection of real life instances?

Wonder: I wonder if this angst to get revenge is real or not, is it just because they are public figures they can say what they want to say?

Inference: Police officers make assumptions that the black community always sell drugs. Categorizing and stereotyping this community.

Connection: this song can connect with today's #blacklivesmatter movement because they both centralize on police brutality and how their community is targeted based on their skin color.

Visualization: I can imagine MC Ren, Dr. Dre, and Ice Cube reenacting a scene from the court, but put their own twist to how they perceive the judicial system sees their community.

Wonder: I wonder why its direction toward the south made him upset.

Summarizing: Instead of celebrating the success of the bill we should recognize our privilege and offer it to help others in need.

Connection: This reminds me of MLK's speech and how he longed for social justice and the unification of blacks and whites.

Wonder: What does this mean? Is Senate trying to only push this on a state level rather than a federal level? Is this a good decision?

Connection: This reminds me of Brown v. Board of Education because of the whole idea, "separate, but equal" phrase. I think in this article however, this dissolves that idea.

Historical context: Johnson was a huge supporter of the civil rights movement because he believed in equality for all and made sure that the bill moved along, unlike Kennedy who pushed it to the side a little too much.

Wonder: I wonder why there were some democrats that opposed the bill. Was it so they wouldn't upset their constituents back in their home states?

Inference: Rap is now considered as a money making genre, rather than a platform for the African American community to speak out.

Connection: top people get the most money, but the people at the bottom don't get much. Artists like Jay Z and Drake are paid for their talents that is accepted by popular culture, rather than underground rappers.

Wonder: This shift of accepting certain artists, but not others can result in tension among the African American community. Should there be a sense of unity within this community?

Wonder: Why is it that rap is approached with resistance from popular culture?

Predicting: I think that this statement will turn back to making hip hop more about the marginalized because of artists like Kendrick Lamar, J Cole, and Beyonce. Artists are realizing that it's their voice that matters to create change.

This is a project where they are working to count the number of people killed by police and other law enforcement agencies in the United States throughout 2015 and 2016, to monitor their demographics and to tell the stories of how they died.

This song represents Public Enemy and how they wanted to exercise their right to freedom of speech and bring awareness to the injustices of not being able to use their voice.

Summarizing: J Cole and D'Angelo are two artists that express the real experiences of African Americans.

Inference: J Cole is making a statement on how we are too focused on American capitalism rather than our own happiness.

Connection: When people are lost or feel uneasy about something, they return to their roots to better understand that issue. I have felt that way all throughout college.

Wonder: Why does society expect public figures to be representative of their "people?" Is it only for publicity of the movement?

Connection: I remember talking to my family about how we as Mexican Americans are very similar to African Americans because we are all just trying to reach the "American Dream"

Inference: The Black Lives Matter Movement has strong ties to the Rodney King trial. Except now people are speaking out about it and not taking no for an answer.

Visualization: I can picture the author walking around and listening to this song. I can imagine how this song reflects the people and how they feel about police brutality currently.

Summarizing: Rappers no longer speak out about their hardships anymore, but now focus on their success.