African people

ending slavery and making every man, woman, and child equal. While this did end slavery, it also caused problems that would negatively impact African American families for several decades, even to this day. In Ava DuVernay’s documentary 13th, she uses compelling statistics and several qualified narrators to educate her audience on what life has been like for African American families and shows how they have been “criminalized” by society, even after the 13th Amendment was passed. The…

an issue in the African American community due to unmet needs and barriers within the community. From the National Alliance on Mental Health, “African Americans are 20% more likely to experience serious mental health problems than the general population.” It is environmental and socioeconomic reasons that may impact mental health such as exposure to violence, which is more common for black children to experience. Homelessness also creates a greater risk, in NAMI statistics, “African Americans…

passed to protect African American from segregation and equality. However, there are still problems in the Civil Rights Movement. For example, African Americans are not being treated equally to every race. Today, the Civil Rights Movement has been changed; however, there are still forms of a modern Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement is still important, due to the protection for African Americans. The Trayvon Martin story was the start of soon impact on many African Americans. The…

Whether or not “biological race” exists has been a topic of controversy over the span of many years. American anthropologist Michael L Blakey (1999), who specializes in the study of African Americans, defines biological race as “a population that differs from others in the frequency of one or more biological traits”. However, while it is wonted to say that biological race is merely a fixation upon cultural connotations (and often the two are confused), anthropologists have questioned the true…

scapegoating besieges them. They can now legally be disenfranchised, denied housing, and quality education. Disenfranchisement of African Americans is a huge problem. In fact, today more African American males are disenfranchised than in the 1870’s. This is mainly to do with felon disenfranchisement laws that deny felons the right to vote. People who are felons are disproportionately people of color. Research has shown that as much as 10% of the population in some minority communities in the…

Negro at the Ballot Box,” as my primary source. The cartoon’s setting is Georgetown and people are in line to vote for Andrew Jackson as a president. And it features an African-American man standing in line to vote and two white men glaring at them. The African-American man is dressed up in low class clothes. He took off his hat when he puts his vote in the glass ballot box. A white man lined up behind the African-American man is dressed up in nice hat, coat, and shoes. He looked seemed to…

Throughout the past decade, African American students have been put through the grinder to gain equality in the public school system. School is seen as a method to help young adults integrate themselves in today’s society, still til this day education has been a struggle for African American students. The lacking of potential so to speak in public schools stirs up a contraversal topic of conversation among those of the highest form of government to the lowest form poverty stricten American…

best suited for African Americans and our important needs? As we come closer to picking a democratic winner to compete against Donald Trump in the presidential Election, we need to decide the pros and cons of each democratic nominee. People in the United States each chooses a nominee that has been best suited for their needs. They feel that they based their choice on their own opinions and their target on a specific issue. For me, the presidential year all comes down to the people choosing their…

Unequal Education in Minority Communities Unequal education on the side of minorities has increased, causing an increase in unemployed African American’s and other minorities. People may say that these minorities do not have a job simply because they are too lazy to go out and get one, but with looking at the research, the real cause starts as they are kids. The emphasis on school and motivation to strive for a future remains absent from the parents, which will rub off onto the young children…

Today we do not have segregated schools, bathrooms or drinking fountains. We are able to be come friends with people of a different race and even marry people of different races. Overall, we are able to marry who ever we want in this day and age. Opinions of race and racism are much different when you travel to places in the United States. For example, the south still can be rather…