African American female singers

Involvement in the political process is a privilege that should be given to all citizens of the United States who live under it. Voting rights differ from state to state; in many states felons cannot vote while they are in prison, while in some states they cannot vote until they have finished probation (Chung 2016). In a couple of states prisoners never lose their rights, whereas in other states, felons lose their rights permanently (Chung 2016). In the state of Texas, felons are not allowed to…

On Wednesday, Feb. 10, the Honor Program 6 (HP VI) students held a film presentation of a documentary they created in celebration of Black History Month. The film explored racism in cartoons, social media, news, T.V., music, and even award shows. Not only did the documentary touch on the everyday struggles of the black community, but touched on racism of all cultures observed globally. In addition, the students highlighted in their documentary how media has skewed the facts and has- and still…

This film clearly portrays the mistreatment of African Americans, and its shows a huge divide between Caucasians and African American’s, the Caucasians thought of being superior and African American’s thought to be inferior, the context of this movie gives you some insight on the cultural perspective of African American’s, it lets you see the traditions and customs and also, borrowed customs, the need for African American’s to wear wigs and straight hair to be more presentable to…

African-American spirituals are religious folksongs that developed from experiences of enslaved Africans in the American South during the colonial period. During that time, slaves were deprived of their freedom, language, families, as well as their connection to African culture. In fact, slaves owned by Christians were forbidden from practicing any religion, except Christianity (“African American Spirituals- Folk and Traditional Styles,” n.d., para…

In the novel, Invisible Man, the author, Ralph Ellison addresses the social issue of racism through the lens of an African American man. The narrator, also known as the Invisible Man, struggles with his identity as a black man in a prejudice mid-twentieth century America. Many of the events in the novel correlate with the constant struggle of racism in society. Racism has always been a major social issue, especially during the mid-twentieth century, in which the novel takes place in. Ralph…

city as ablack man “ I was to become thoroughly familiar with the language of fear. At dark, shadowy intersections, I could cross in front of a car stopped at a traffic light and elicit the thunk, thunk, thunk of the driver – black, white, male, or female – hammering down the door locks.”(Staples 395) If a black man is wearing a large jacket its instantly assumed by law enforcers that he is holding some form of weapon. In the book “Everyday Bias” that is mentioned in the article by Gettys it…

backgrounds can affect how issues of racism can be interpreted and misinterpreted. He argues that European Americans often view racism through a screen of “whiteness,” the excuse that color does not matter in this world and everyone has equal opportunity, when in reality oppression still exists and events of racism in the world have not ceased. The audience for this article is most likely African American people because most of the background information is directed towards their culture and the…

different ideas and beliefs. For example, the Native Americans have a very different culture than some one who was born in Bemidji, Minnesota. There is a huge tension between some of the Native Americans and Caucasians people throughout Minnesota and the United States as a whole. The tension between the Native Americans and the Caucasians reminds me of what the African Americans might have felt in the 1800’s until 1900’s and even today. The African Americans just tried to maintain their culture…

Conservative estimates put well-established, dynastic African civilization as beginning nearly 5,000 years prior to the first slaves landing in North America. Perhaps the greatest injustice ever conferred onto the African diaspora in America was the large-scale insistence on minimizing the vast and bountiful history from which they originated. W.E.B Du Bois, in writing The Souls of Black Folk draws a powerful comparison between this categorical miseducation that was necessary to perpetuate…

Since our nation’s inception, Americans have repeatedly struggled to agree on many issues – the role of the federal government, the pros and cons of economic growth, and our role as a nation on the global stage. Only one issue, however, has led to civil war in our country– the issue of slavery. When wealthy landowners began buying and importing African Americans as slaves, they created a stark division between blacks and whites. A bloody war was fought to settle the matter, yet we still face…