100 Greatest African Americans

generations to come to keep the stories alive that is the greatest job of those to come and it’s not something to take lightly. If we forget the struggles and the triumphs of those before us we are doomed to take everything for granted. The best way to rectify this tell stories, remember those that fought tooth and nail to get a chance. There are thousands of accounts of firsts, the first woman to fight in MMA, the first African American pilot (Bessany) or the woman in combat. These are where…

also other things to take note of. One of them is that Jesse was black so he was still being discriminated by others. Another is that he tied a world record while he was only in high school and then broke more records when he was older. He tied the 100 meter dash record twice during his track career. As a child Jesse had close to nothing but he raised up and gained fame. He was unrelenting, although he was discriminated he didn’t let it bother him and kept on running. Jesse Owens will be…

brutality is what sparked the recent issues that we have faced and all cops are being labeled for being racist and black men are being labeled as thugs. Police have killed 303 African Americans in 2016 and the rates are climbing higher and only 1 in 3 of African Americans killed by police were allegedly armed that’s only 31% out of 100%. In 2015 only 10 police officers were charged and 2 of the 10 were actually convicted for their crimes and that’s not fair because what they are doing is wrong.…

concerns • Low SES patients may not be receiving much information or guidance • low SES patients are less likely than others to benefit from written materials because about 1 in 2 adults in the US is unable to read above an 8th grade level and not all Americans are proficient in English • Large increase in Spanish speaking patients in US hospitals • Worldwide 774 million adults cannot read (2008) Health Literacy (pg. 135) • Health literacy represents the cognitive and social skills which…

Hip Hop generation was born. It ultimately came full circle when black and brown youth in urban ghettos in New York united through privations and the fervent need to alter their grim futures. The Hip Hop generation was the first cohort of African Americans born in a post civil rights era. According to Bakari Kitwana in his book The Hip Hop Generation, most…

Segregation , slavery, abuse what more else can we go through? . Black African Americans often feel like the worst race in the world. We are more than what you see. We are not just ignorant , loud, ghetto and dimensional people. We go through and have been through a lot since the black police killings, and hard livings. We are more than athletics who can jump real high or run really fast. We are more than what you see. The struggles of being black is that the news always makes us look like…

most likely had a major contribution to Malcolm X’s violent approach in the civil rights movement. The trauma allowed him to gain awareness and respect for his racial roots as a black. He is deeply offended and angered by the past enslavement of Africans, so “he took the last name of a variable: X” because he “[believed] his true lineage to be lost” (“54h. Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam”). An individual who believed he was deeply connected to his past, Malcolm X prepared himself to go down…

How Race and Ethnicity affected the music of Eminem In this assignment i will be focusing on Rap music and how race and ethnicity affected the music of Eminem, both positively and negatively. I have chosen to research this topic as i found it very interesting, with many valid opinions and points of view to look into. Rap music, also known as Hip Hop began in the 1970’s in the lower class areas of New York, also known as the ‘ghetto’, as a way for the public to voice their political frustration…

undoubtedly wrote one of the greatest novel of his time, The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life, written in 1929, discussing feminism and colourism of Harlem in the 1920s-30s. Thurman’s The Blacker the Berry has not been forgotten, as nearly 100 years after its release, it is the core of two of influential hip-hop artist songs, Tupac Shakur’s Keep Ya Head Up and Kendrick Lamar’s The Blacker the Berry. Lamar and Shakur are two of the most influential and greatest hip-hop artists since the…

thoughts about their race. This has been an ongoing problem in the African American community in the U.S. There have been incidents that have occurred that have been made internationally known like, the beating of Rodney King in 1991 and more recently the murder of Trayvon Martin. These events cause fear in the African American community when the police are involved. In the Rodney King beating consisted of a videotape of an African American male being beat continuously by four police officers…