As soon as Joy Bostic heard Kendrick Lamar’s Grammy award-winning album DAMN., she knew she had to develop a class around it. It became the basis for her well-received “Religion and Popular Culture” course. “He was speaking to so many feelings I was having, and I really understood he’s speaking to where a lot of people are,” said Bostic, associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies, describing the exhaustion and anger she felt after unarmed African-American teenager Jordan Edwards was shot and … Continue reading 5 questions with… Associate Professor Joy Bostic, teacher of “Religion and Popular Culture” course