Category: African American

Contents 1 Introduction 2 Stacking and Limited Career Pathways 3 Limited Career Pathways 4 Leadership Stereotypes and Homologous Reproduction 5 Conclusion Introduction The sports field has become a platform for matters of great cultural significance, an issue which is in itself fiercely debated. The topic of diversity has been extensively covered in sports literature as…

African music was brought by slaves to America and was developed further as these African drum ensembles filtered into the slave trade in the colonies. Drumming was a large part of the African and Cameroonian culture and the individuals brought across the country into slavery clung to it as a powerful symbol of freedom, as…

Food insecurity occurs when the availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or the ability to acquire them in socially acceptable ways is limited or uncertain. It is a growing problem in older adults (Sengupta, 2016). Nine percent of older persons who live alone are food insecure, and about 15 percent are at risk. This…

African American people continue to encounter blatant racism today after all the improvement in the civil rights refinement after all these decades. There are different types of racism present in American life today. Racism has a direct effect on everyone’s life, white people included; it molds the large historical circumstances of minorities in endless negative…

While African Americans were slowly gaining rights owed to them they were still being denied opportunities because of their race. The Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education would change many things for African Americans and that is something that many white segregationists feared. Brown v. Board of Education shed light on injustices…

Since the beginning of America, people of color have faced racial segregation and inequality despite all of their efforts to be seen as equal citizens. Beginning with the Dred Scott decision in 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to deny citizenship and constitutional rights to all African Americans. This ruling by the Court caused a…

Contents 1 Summary of Alain Locke’s “The New Negro” 2 The New Negro: A Cultural Renaissance 3 Migration, Transformation, and Identity 3.1 Reference Summary of Alain Locke’s “The New Negro” The New Negro’ had the primary duty of being equal to the white race. Blacks changed their complete appearance as a result of the Great…

The Harlem Renaissance was a period full of African American literary excellence. The world was overcome by intellectuals who “desired to establish and re-present African-American cultural authenticity to a predominantly white audience.” Zora Neale Hurston was compelled by this time and contributed by writing multiple stories and novels. Her most known work, Their Eyes Were…

On April 15th 1947 Jackie Robinson started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers professional baseball travel team and changed America forever (Aaseng). This was incredibly significant for the Sports Entertainment business and Civil Rights Movement because he was the first African American to break the color line in his sport (Loverro). Robinson didnt just…

When the topic of police brutality comes to mind, many come to terms of it being justified or needed in the occasion of the crime. Where do people’s minds go to when the topic of police brutality in African American communities come up? Minds revert to it being justified because these individuals are seen as…