Pop Culture Class – Learning educational lessons from today's headlines and viral moments.

Local boards, commissions and councils: Don’t talk about it, be about it

By Shontavia Johnson October 19, 2019October 19, 2019

Law+Media+Innovation

Women Inventors Get No Love from Monopoly or the Patent Office

By Shontavia Johnson September 18, 2019September 18, 2019

Shifting Your Perspective: The #graduationseason edition

By Shontavia Johnson May 29, 2019May 29, 2019

Beyoncé Put on a Clinic for Content Creators Today: 3 Lessons from #BeyonceHomecoming and #Beychella

By Shontavia Johnson April 17, 2019June 22, 2019

A Tale of Two Chicagos: What I Learned From Becoming and Surviving R. Kelly

By Shontavia Johnson February 6, 2019June 11, 2019

My #SXSW2020 and #SXSWEDU Panel Proposals: Please VOTE them UP!

What to do when someone is vindictive, racist, and out to get you – Lessons from Ona Judge

Law+Media+Innovation

America’s always had black inventors – even when the patent system explicitly excluded them (Patent Law)

Law+Media+Innovation

Send an Email to Betty Jean Owens, a Living Civil Rights and Women’s Rights Heroine (Civil Rights Law)

Martin Luther King Jr., Black-ish, and Diversifying Nature’s Visitors

Law+Media+Innovation

#PopCultureClass: Beyonce’s September 2018 Vogue Shoot Led to Artistic Inspiration – and Perhaps Copyright Infringement