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...eliminate these three words from hip-hop culture, what about other rap themes that are dangerous to society, like "no snitching" anthems? -Brendan Ripp, New York CityS---, when I was a kid I didn't snitch either. I don't know if you watch them gangster movies where the Italian guys come out of the church and they don't talk-- the sad truth is that we can talk about "no snitching" as if it were a rap code, but it is a street code. We need to create a dialogue between the police and community. That's the issue...
...that his comments would have been no less offensive had he been black himself, a sentiment nicely expressed by ESPN.com columnist Jemele Hill, who wrote, “In case you’re wondering, I would have been equally outraged if Imus were black, Asian, Latino, Portuguese, or Italian. The ethnicity or skin color of the perpetrator matters none.” Hill’s logic is a common feature of the conversation on racism. There is often an attempt to create an equality of offensiveness—to maintain that certain statements are identically racist no matter...
Currently there are 13 undergraduate courses at Harvard that feature ABL. In one such class, for example, students in “Italian 60: Italian in the Community” apply their language skills as teaching assistants or aides in Boston-area public schools...
...says. “It has so many cultural, physical, and biological sources.”Musico didn’t start out in musical theater. “I am a pianist, by trade,” he says. “I grew up in a traditional Italian family that felt wholesome kids should play an instrument.” He began playing the piano at age five, and studied classical artists until high school. It was then that he began to explore jazz and musicals.The experience that would lead to Musico’s continued involvement with...
...integral part of the general education reforms that will replace the current Core Curriculum. “[ABL] helps you learn outside of the classroom in a way you can’t get from a book,” said Antonio Pino ’10, who taught Italian to elementary school students in Italian 60, “Italian and the Community.” “ABL is something that is at the core of the success of an education.” The event was cosponsored by the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning...