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When it comes to history, black history is already talked about at a bare minimum. Black history is disregarded as if it has no importance in American history. So when it comes to being black, which already targets someone as a threat, and gay the history is not taught unless the initiative is taken to obtain that knowledge. History is important to who it affects, so at first look I would say black LGBTQ history is not important, but in the same breath I would say how important African American…

“Justice for Eric Garner”, was the first of many hashtags I have seen that morning. Out of curiosity, I searched up Eric Garner and I clicked on the first video I have seen. The video had a thumbnail with a man with a group of police officers on top of him, from there my heart dropped knowing that it can’t be good. As the video went on and the situation started to escalate my heart was pounding out of fear of what I thought I might see. The moment I have seen the officer get him in a headlock…

Dreams and Deception: Sports Lure, Racism, and Young Black Males’ Struggle in Sports and Education Dreams and Deception by Isabel Ann Dwornik, which was published on January 31, 2017. I chose this book because I felt that people should be more aware of how young black males view a career in sports as a way out of their financial situation. I didn’t want to choose and everyday biography about an athlete. I wanted to read and introduce an everyday problem that doesn’t get as much attention as it…

Lakeita Hudson Jaclyn Harding English Composition 1 21 November 2017 Kneeling for the Anthem Colin Kaepernick, who is a bi-racial man grew up relatively privileged, but felt he was disconnected from his ethnic background. In college Kaepernick joined an all-black fraternity, and was a social activist early on. He became aware of the many challenges that African American men had to endure while in college. When police violence against African American males became spiraling out of control,…

The book Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates, was written in letter form to his son about his life of being a black American. Coates throughout the book gives his personal views about different topics that negatively affect the black American race. The book’s purpose was to explain to his son about the troubles that Coates himself had to go through before his son was born and during his life. It is meant to be served as a warning about what is to come to his son’s life. Three main…

W.E.B Du Bois was born William Edward Burghardt Du Bois. He was a historian, civil rights activist and a pan-africanist, wanting the bond between the people in the United Sattes of African descent to have a better bond. He wrote a book titled The Souls of Black Folk is a novel written in 1903. In the book he believes one of the biggest problems is the 20th century is the fact that there is a very prevalent color line. He describes when he first encountred racism as a child nd how it has shaped…

AbstractAbstract To secure confidentiality, the client in the study will be referred to as Josh J. Josh J. is a 13-year-old black male. While doing this case study, the researcher found several theories and concepts to be of help to describe the development of the 13-year-old client. The theories that were of focus in this case study are; James Marcia’s ego identity statuses, Morris Rosenberg’s model of identity, and James Fowler’s stages of developmental faith. The concepts discussed are…

The whole narration is written informally as the narrator describes the events he went through in the course of a few years. As if indicating his comparatively high level of education compared to other African Americans, the narrator uses sophisticated diction that exposes his level of knowledge. However, when he describes conversations with African Americans, he uses colloquial diction of African American English (Black English) to characterize the characters and enhance the understanding of…

Allan M. Brandt wrote this article, “Racism and Research: The Case Study of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study” to assert the Tuskegee Study in a historical context and he wanted to relate it to the ethical implications that were seen in the twentieth century. The syphilis study that is being talked about was a study that included 400 syphilitic black men. There was also another 200 black men that were unaffected and served as a control. The issue that Brandt reveals is that when penicillin, the drug…

Initially, the article and the poem both talk about the pain that the African American people had to go through. In the poem Du Bois talks about the suffering of the African Americans and says, “I am the smoke king /I am black …/I am the thought of the throbbing mills; /I am the soul of the soul-toil kills, /Wraith of the ripple of trading rills;” (Du Bois). This quote is extremely important because there are many point which he talks about; first is the word “smoke” which, is talking about…