African Darter

Current Event An unarmed African American 18 year old, Michael Brown was shot and killed on August 9, 2014 by a white police officer, Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. Shortly before the shooting, a convenience store had been robbed. Officer Darren Wilson claims that as he encountered Michael Brown, he recognized him as the suspect of the robbery. Therefore, he backed up to block him. There are several claims, and not enough evidence to anticipate what exactly happened next. Officer…

College has been nothing as I expected, as well as an unforgiving experience. Since, in high school teachers supposed to lead the education of their students. However, now that I am attending college it is clear that I am the owner of my own learning. (Hazard & Nadeau, 2011, p. 11) When I was attending high school, I did not have any other responsibilities other than my education. However, now that I am attending college, there are expenses that need to be paid. This has caused me to both, be…

education, many of our ideas and opinions can be stereotyped or prejudiced, bearing no relationship to the truth” (ch.5, p.254). Learning to Read and Write This reading by Fredrick Douglas on his experience to read and write shows great commitment by an African American during a time of slavery. Douglas was a slave that whose duties were to work and obey, not read and write. But, he felt a strong urge to be educated thus leading him on a search to find white people -mainly male children- to…

Since rock and roll did not begin till the mid 1950s the youth was still being held to strict tidy polices by parents and educators. Social cultural wise the teens were to dress in an specific manner where the males must be dressed in tight jeans, button up shirts and letterman cardigans. As for the girls they had to wear ballet flats with long poodle skirts. The youth of the 50s was also given the same social norms that their parents acquired when they were young. Many of the recreational…

hope for the blacks, that time had now ended. The black community lost their key ally. In the book New Perspectives on the History of the South : After Slavery : Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South, Brian Kelly writes that the African American “triumph marked not so much a new trend in black thinking as the eclipse of the black working-class politics that had flickered so brightly, yet…

The booming and banging of guns, slashing and swooshing of swords, and the crackle and crunch of bones fill the air as the Union and the Confederates fight over slavery. The country is torn and it seems as though there is no end to the abuse of African Americans. It is not until 1864 that the war ends and Congress decides something needs to be done to reunite the nation. A year later the 13th amendment is ratified. To insure the freedom of slaves, section one of the amendment states, “Neither…

The 1970’s were a time of the change for women and African Americans in America. Alice Walker’s short story “Everyday Use” gives readers a glimpse into some of the difficulties African American women faced and still face today. Alice Walker displays the difficulties to try to keep heritage, traditions, identity while being able to make political and societal change through her use of symbols, characters and theme. Many men and women over time have conformed to what society believes people should…

even more responsibilities, including dealing with issues that used to be taught at home or in church, such as sex, violence, drugs and alcohol, and general morality, and citizenship”. I went to a mainly white school. We had maybe a total of ten African Americans in our school of about one thousand students. The dynamics between everyone made it feel like everything was fine. I never saw any of my peers treat them differently and I never treated them differently so, I assumed that everything…

Side in late February of 2011, after residents of Soho felt highly offended by an ad Life Always placed at the intersection of Sixth Ave. and Watts St. The billboard featured a young, innocent looking, African American girl with a quote stated above her picture: “The most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb.” Life Always, an anti abortion organization from Texas, defended their billboard by stating, “The intent of the board is to call attention to the tragedy and the truth…

The Mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, is a man in a very difficult situation regarding the safety of the African-American community, not only in his city, but all across the nation. On August 9th of this year, Michael Brown, a young black teenager living in Ferguson, Missouri, was shot and killed by a white police officer Darren Wilson, after shoplifting from a convenience store. This incident sent a shockwave throughout the community and began to draw attention to the racial…