{"id":12,"date":"2026-03-31T16:50:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/MB2\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2026-04-14T17:26:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:26:21","slug":"page-3-importance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/MB2\/page-3-importance\/","title":{"rendered":"Page 3: Importance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><strong>Page 3: Social Justice<\/strong><br><br>This project connects to\u00a0social justice\u00a0by exploring themes like race, inequality, power, and success in Jay-Z\u2019s music. These themes reflect real social and economic experiences, especially within Black communities. <br><br><strong>Issues<\/strong>:\u00a0race, inequality, economic struggle.<br><br><strong>Groups<\/strong>:\u00a0Black communities, hip-hop artists, people affected by systemic inequality.<br><br><strong>Approach<\/strong>:\u00a0Analyzing lyrics as cultural data and connecting them to real-world social issues through a digital platform.<br><br><strong>Key analysis<\/strong>:\u00a0The project shows how hip-hop can highlight real social experiences and brings attention to under appreciated voices and perspectives that are often overlooked. Along with that, this allows hip hop and Jay-z's music to be studied further academically and voice things that need to be heard from the communities.<br><br><strong>Best Practices<\/strong>: Shows a clear purpose of social issues(race, inequality, and power) and a audience of students and professors.<br> <\/pre>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"772\" height=\"980\" src=\"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/MB2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_6079.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-186\" style=\"width:502px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/MB2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_6079.jpg 772w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/MB2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_6079-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/MB2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_6079-768x975.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 772px) 100vw, 772px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Page 3: Social JusticeThis project connects to\u00a0social justice\u00a0by exploring themes like race, inequality, power, and success in Jay-Z\u2019s music. These themes reflect real social and economic experiences, especially within Black communities. Issues:\u00a0race, inequality, economic struggle.Groups:\u00a0Black communities, hip-hop artists, people affected by systemic inequality.Approach:\u00a0Analyzing lyrics as cultural data and connecting them to real-world social issues through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/MB2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/MB2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/MB2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/MB2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/MB2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/MB2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/MB2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/MB2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}