Angela Davis

criminal activity or are forcing them to do so as well. On the grounds of male supremacy, women in this society do not get the same job opportunities as their male counterparts or are forced into free labor such as sex slaves or factory workers. Although Davis is right about the fact that poor and working class women get exploited, she forgets to mention that all women get exploited. Female oppression does not just happen to the poor and working class women of the world, it happens to all women.…

we can muster. It starts with the small things like the recognition of our own beauty and one of those things is the natural hair on the heads of black women. The crowns that we are known for. Look at the heads of women revolutionaries like Angela Davis back in the day and today with Bree Newsome. Who knows how many change agents will born as a result of the sturdiness of the natural girl conglomerate? There’s power in our hair and when it brings us into sister circles, our solidarity…

The Black Panthers Party Rise and Local Influence It was the 1960’s in America and racial segregation was unbearable. Black people were being terrorize, brutalize and murder by the police in their communities. There were high depression levels of unemployment in the Black community, people of color lived in poverty where 40% of men that lived in the ghetto were paid less than 60 dollars per week. Making it impossible to support their families or bring up their children in dignity. Health care…

In 1890, two rival organizations, the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association, merged to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). The NAWSA's movement marginalize many African-American women and through this effort was developed the idea of the "educated suffragist." This was the notion that being educated was an important prerequisite for being allowed the right to vote. Since many African-American women were uneducated, this notion…

According to the ACLU (May 2013) the School to Prison Pipeline refers to the policies and practices that funnel our nation’s students out of classrooms and into the juvenile and justice system. The pipeline is a reflection of the the priority of incarceration over education, and starts with inadequate resources in public schools. High stakes testing, over policing, and poor zero tolerance and suspension practices all perpetuate the pipeline. Al Jazeera America (2014) writes of the…

The Oversexualization and Objectification of Black Women She’s angry, she’s mean, she has an attitude, she’s loud, she’s ghetto, she’s exotic, she’s a jezebel. These some of the many attributes and the stereotypes of black women that are given to them from misrepresentation in the mainstream media. Not only are these labels incorrect, they can be harmful to black women everywhere; they perpetuate this idea that if one falls into a stereotype about the community in which they belong, it makes…

The Everlasting Cycle of Racial Injustice Ava DuVernay, the director of the film titled “13th”, comes from a background of highly appreciated films such as, Selma, Middle of Nowhere, and I Will Follow. In addition to her impactful media presentations, she was also mentioned in the Fortune Magazine’s 50 Greatest World Leaders of 2017. From the relinquishment of the civil war to our present era, the documentary provides an accurate and detailed time lapse of how african americans continue to be…

Kick The Habit If you place “privacy” on one side of the balance, and “security” on the other side, will they be equal? Or would one kick the beam? Would you like to have all your personal information laid out for the eyes of an officer for the sake of yours and others’ security? How would you feel if you enter a job interview knowing that the interviewer has a complete background check about you in his files? “Privacy” is defined as one’s right to keep personal information private. Yes! It is…

no matter the market size. On an even more local scale, surrounding restaurants and bars in the Madison, Wisconsin area are impacted greatly during home Badger football games. The Isthmus, a local newspaper in Madison published an interview with Angela Genin, general manager of Lucky’s Bar and Grill, she says home games account for about 40% of the bar’s annual revenue (Levitan 1). Lucky’s among others, hires extra staff to help keep up with the demand (Levitan 1). Madison like other…

the sex slavery under ISIS. Girls as young as a year old are sold off for sexual pleasure. The younger the female, the more costly. This information was haunting and heart wrenching. Another piece I was hoping they would talk about because of the Angela Davis book we’re currently reading was black women in history and how they 're undermined today. Three girls each had talked about how American society was built on the blood, sweat and bones of female slaves but in society they are at the bottom…