American journalists

and in particular the american medias and cinema directors and producers have on the spectator ( viewer) as well in American society but also internationally. I did the researches, read the books, trying to think in American way, and I suddenly realized, that the influence of the media in the case of racial dispute between white and black americans is crucial and destructive, not only for the representatives this this both races, but on the future development of the american society. When we…

“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” This strong statement came from a woman who overcame many trials and tribulations. Maya Angelou is one of the greatest figures in American literature. She is known for writing poetry which she used to spread the word of equality for many African American women and for others who were oppressed. Maya Angelou went through many hardships, but through hard work and her love for literature, she became one of America’s well-known poets.…

(Goodreads). With the minority in the United States, the majority never knows how tough lives of minorities can be. Wesley Lowery writes a book on the discrimination of police brutality and what he saw through his own cultural lens. He is an African American journalist for the Washington Post. Lowery attended Ohio University where he got his bachelor of Arts/Science. Wesley Lowery’s assignments included murders, stabbings, highway closures, drunk drivers and more. “They Can’t Kill Us All” is a…

Throughout the history of America, African Americans were very limited when it comes to social rights, discriminated and segregated however that didn 't stop them for fighting for what they believed in and racial injustice. In the African American community a lot of black activist created groups that helped them defended their community and the supremacy of white people. One example of an activist in the Black community was W. E. B. Du Bois he was a founder of the Niagara movement and the…

Tim Wise is an American anti-racism activist and writer explains how our country has overcome quite a lot; slavery, Civil War, and segregation. Although we like to believe that we live in a post racial society, the fact is that racial inequalities still exist. Tim Wise published a book called White Like Me which draws upon a nonfiction book called Black Like Me by journalist John Howard Griffin first published in 1961 book; in the book, and in the later version which was made into a movie,…

A young, white boy, just four years old, turned and asked his mother “Who is the tan man?” His mother happened to be Jodi Picoult, an author and journalist for Time Magazine. She was completely caught off guard by the question and answered her son in the way she thought was best. She says of her response, “I told my son that although people came in different shades, we’re all the same. I told him I was colorblind, and he should be too.” Picoult’s answer to her son was clearly a result of the…

commit assault, theft, and arson. However, the millions around the world who watched the riots from their television sets and read about them in their newspapers were presented a different picture. The international media portrayed an image of black Americans waging a race war. How do we know the riot wasn’t predominantly carried out by the black community as a form racial backlash? There was no way to take a completely accurate census of the crowds. However statistics were done on the 12,000…

to what the Associated Press released. The Northern journalists attacked the South stating, "how astonishingly little cultural progress has been made in some parts of the world, and...also explain[s] the industrial backwardness and political reaction of the South" (Jones et. al.). The editorial is significant because the South had enacted the Jim Crow laws after the abolishment of slavery proving that the South could never find African Americans as equals, but the Rosewood story does not end…

Ta-Nehisi Coates is a journalist and national correspondent who writes about culture, politics and social issues. He grew up in west Baltimore Maryland where he came about race in America through a combination of patient instruction, firsthand experience and tragedy of his friends’ death. Mr. Coates attended Howard University, where he described it as being the loveliest and unique. Howard University can be known as a historical black institution, having African-Americans from all over the world…

During the first few decades of the twentieth century there was an upsurge in African American mobility in the United States. Scholars refer to this demographic shift as the “Great Migration” of African Americans, in which African Americans moved out of southern states to northern cities, and to a lesser extent to the west coast, between 1910 and 1970. According to studies on the Great Migration, the mass exodus of blacks from the South was propelled by Jim Crow policies that exacerbated the…