Afro

It is well known that railroads played a major role in the empire-building process in Afro-Eurasia between 1860 and 1918. During this time, the railroads varied extents, which depended on the regions. These railroads were used in different regions which included Europe and North America, where industrialization was already in progress. The railroads were able to advance the process of empire building by making it possible to move goods, troops, and settlers across the territories in an efficient…

Malcolm X Was Ethical Malcolm X talked about the rules at the founding rally of the Organization of the Afro-American Unity "The Organization of Afro-American Unity shall include all people of African descent in the Western Hemisphere, as well as our brothers and sisters on the African continent. Which means anyone of African descent, with African blood, can become a member of the Organization of Afro-American Unity”. Malcolm X was a civil rights activist in the 1960’s, he lived in Manhattan,…

are of the Afro-Caribbean subculture. Prior to attending FAMU, I had never tried southern fast food or food chains like, Zaxbys or Waffle House. When mentioning this to my southern friends at the university, they would look at me with shock, wondering what rock I could have been living under? While at the same time, many of them may have never heard or of had Caribbean food from restaurants like Golden Krust, Dutch Pot, and so on. Even with all that being said, I myself am not even…

their as is, which is commonly associated with the “Afro”. The “Afro” was not only a hairstyle, but a political statement for black men and women refusing the restrictions from society and assimilation to white standards of beauty. The Afro was also a “silent affirmation of African roots and the beauty of blackness” (Brown 16). The Black Power Movement is strongly associated with…

demand of different textured hair extensions, there are various colours that allow one to spruce up their look without box dyeing or bleaching their own her to achieve the look. The introduction of twist outs and ‘wash-and-go’ styles has given the Afro a stylistic flare as well. A twist out or braid out is basically what its name describes it to be, the person braids or twist their hair for various amounts of time and when the person is…

room until a magazine cover stole my gaze. The cover was amazing to me, it was different. The shiny cover contained a picture of a young women, and read “The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975”.I analyzed the caramel colored woman on the cover, with an afro the size of earth itself. Throughout all the magazines on the table she was the only one without makeup and flat thin hair, but she was still the most confident one, who also spoke a million words in one picture without even trying. I shimmied the…

“Is it still AI when the task is to model human stupidity, or would only preventing its devastating consequences get an AI rating?” (Naggum, 2018). The question may raise a range of ethical questions. Quach explores the negative side to the recent development in artificial intelligence (AI) in her article, ‘How machine-learning code turns a mirror on its sexist, racist masters’ (Quach, 2018), She expresses a view that the data set or information learned and recycled by the AI may inevitably…

Professor Henry Gates explores the South American country of Brazil in his second episode of Black in Latin America. More than 75 million people of African descent inhabit Brazil which makes it the second largest population of black people in the world. There are many aspects of African culture, traditions, and values very alive in Brazil. Brazil was the first country to claim it was free of racism, but the last country in the western hemisphere to abolish slavery. Gates visits different cities…

The effects of the Black Death on the Afro-Eurasian global communities included demographic consequences, demise of the economy, and social unrest. The majority of the demographic collapse was located in Europe and Islamic lands where population growth stopped for over a century, sometimes even longer, noting that England's population did return to pre-black death numbers until almost four centuries later. This devastation of population demise caused a lack of day-laborers, in turn causing labor…

The time before the revolution reflects Cuba’s authentic and native style of music and Conjunto Philadelphia wanted to reflect that through their performances. First and foremost Cuban music is dance music (Cuba- Son and Afro-Cuban Music). To create a true representation of the Cuban style of music all the aspects of the Cuban musical culture had to be expressed. This was why the performers urged the audience to dance with them as they played their songs. They made sure…