Category: African American

Langston Hughes was born in 1902 and grew up in Kansas with his grandparents. He later left his grandparents’ home to live with his mother, but his father had moved to Mexico and was not very involved in his life. Many people who knew Hughes or studied his life have said that this parental neglect…

Almost everyone can be involved in police brutality including Hispanics, Asian, and African American. But, black people are most likely to be shot by police than their white peers. However, according to Vox news says, An analysis of the available FBI data by Dara Lind for Vox found that US police kill black people at…

Contents 1 Introduction 2 The Struggles and Determination 3 Persistent Will and Collective Effort 4 Conclusion 4.1 References Introduction “Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking” ~Winston Churchill. Throughout history, African Americans have been fighting for equality, for not being frowned upon, for freedom! This feeling of fighting for…

Arguably one of the greatest decisions made by the Supreme Court in the 20th Century In 1954. With a majority of Southern schools being segregated, Brown vs. Board of Ed. was one of 5 legal appeals that testified against “separate but equal”. The Cases took place in Kansas, Virginia, Delaware, South Carolina, and the District…

From their forced entry into this country to so-called freedom, African Americans have been the rigid backbone in building this nation. They have endured many unspeakable hardships, such as being kidnapped from their homes to being inhumanely thrown into a ship, being forced to do work and sold or auctioned off as slaves, being beaten…

The novel “The Color of Water” by James McBride, is a beautiful heartfelt dedication to a white Jewish mother by her African American son. The novel educates the reader about James McBride’s life growing up with the life that was bestowed upon him, the life of a biracial Jewish man and the confusion that was…

In 1939 Billie Holiday performed “Strange Fruit”, a poem written by Abel Meeropol, to showcase the horror of lynching through the Jim Crow South (Margolick 1). With jarring lyrics of “Blood on the leaves and blood at the root, black bodies swinging in the southern breeze, strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees”, the performance…

Contents 1 The Tragic Incident of Antwan Rose Jr. 2 Sociological Analysis of Racial Discrimination 2.1 Trust Issues with the Police 3 Mental Health Stigmas in Black Communities 4 Police Training and Racial Bias 4.1 References The Tragic Incident of Antwan Rose Jr. An editorial article deriving from USA Today published on September 14, 2018,…

Americanah is a novel written by a Nigerian blogger named Ifemelu. Ifemelu writes about her experience in the United States as an African American woman, and the power of love. She addresses racism and the many stereotypes that describe African Americans in today’s world. She documents the comments and opinions of “”non-blacks”” about African Americans.…

Tenure is an important, but overlooked, aspect of education that faces challenges related to racial imbalance. It has been defined as a “freedom of teaching and research, as well as financial security to make the profession more attractive to people looking to enter it” (1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure). According to…