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Forget that he was the first African American player in baseball, forget that he will forever live in the baseball Hall of Fame as one of the greatest players to step onto a baseball field, and forget that he had an incredible impact on the Civil Rights Movement. At this point in time, Jackie was just an ordinary African American man in the military. He had no notoriety, no fame, no power, whatsoever, to back up such a bold…

In 1865 slavery in the United States of America ended, and since then the Black Community has been told to: get over it, move on, and, “leave the past in the past.” Since 1865 this country has taken steps toward making “improvements”; in the year 2008 we elected our first President with brown skin! Is that progress or what? Has the United States of America, the land of the free, home of the brave, and the place where all were created equal, left its race issues in the past? As much as we would…

Why Ethnic Based Studies are Essential “Afrocentrism is not about sympathy or insult; it is about the proper presentation of factual information in multicultural society” (Molefi Asante). African American Studies and other Ethnic based disciplines will help education in this country. Opposing to Schlesinger’s “The Disunity of America” individuals who arrived from different nations to the “new world” did not melt into one new race. Wealth, the amount of land, and most importantly race…

Martin Luther King, Jr. uses his powerful voice throughout his works to draw on the hearts of his audience by tapping into their moral compasses. King has an impressive understanding on the influence that the argumentative appeal, ethos, has on his readers. By using ethos, King is able to appeal to the character of every single one of his readers. This allows his works to seem more personal, therefore resulting in a bigger influence on his audience. In “The American Dream” and “Letter From…

A man’s hope for a change doesn’t grow weary: a change never comes about without a fight, a fight that most times involves violence, either a direct or an indirect violence. One such man, a pastor, a leader of the southern Christian leadership conference, and an author Martin Luther King Jr , wrote “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” written on April 12, 1963 in the Birmingham jail. He claim against the injustice towards the black community in the United States, especially in the southern part and…

equality and tolerance, I have become spoiled with the delights that this age and my skin color have given me, overshadowing any kind of bigotry and discrimination that still exists. Although I have seen news reports and historical re-tellings of African Americans facing prejudice, I have never seen this situation through the eyes of these victims, until I read Song of Solomon. During its first 112 pages, the novel Song of Solomon ensnares readers, such as I, into a world where men and women are…

The concept of stereotyping is prevalent within both Lori Baker-Sperry and Liz Grauerholz’s “The Pervasiveness and Persistence of the Feminine Beauty Ideal in Children’s Fairytales” and in the preface to Robert Entman and Andrew Rojecki’s The Black Image in the White Mind. These articles discuss how media has the capability to influence the mind of individuals with images of fairy tale’s beauty norms and with racial depictions. Popular media often creates ideals and stereotypes by using…

This is when the “black lives matter” movement started, after numerous black men and women had their lives taken by police officers. After this, there seemed to be a war with African-Americans and cops. America was divided on this topic, some believing that cops were genuinely racist, while others believed the murders were justified, and police were just trying to defend themselves. Unfortunately, we will never truly know what…

taking Dr. Franklin’s African American history 101 course, and in my opinion, it is also the foundation for most of the assignment the class received this semester. This theme was presented within an excises starting on the very first day of class The first assignment we were giving was called “Ball in Tube”. Each student had a scrap sheet of paper and some tape. We…

A majority of philosophy focusing on what the self is in regards to white people. In the times of Aristotle and Plato, their beliefs only regarded white men. In a world where their opinions are more widely regarded than that of ethnic philosophers, people of color rarely get a chance to hear from ethnic philosophers on what the self means to them. According to WEB Dubois, an American black, or other person of color, is unable to be both an American and a minority. This paper will argue that…