Tupac Shakur – arguably one of the most famous musical artists of all time who was no stranger to controversy – personified a mentality he dubbed ‘Thug Life.’ According to Tupac, to the outsider – namely white Americans – ‘Thug Life’ could never be understood. In the 1990s and even
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When I was about seven years old, I remember walking into our local Round Table pizza parlor with my soccer teammates and rushing to the arcade area to see all the toys I could buy with my saved up quarters. While my parents would start to order pizza, my teammates
Jeremy Meeks was arrested back in 2015 for firearm possession. After his mugshot appeared on the Stockton, CA Police Department’s Facebook page for being in jail, his image quickly flew across social media and he became known as the ‘hot’ criminal. People were going nuts over this man with the
In 1998, artist David Gonzales released his first set of his popular Chicano figures, the Homies. However, there was a strong, negative response about the Chicano representation in his art. Some people believed that he was emphasizing negative stereotypes of Mexican youth in California; others appreciated the art and the