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indictment, stirred Americans into action again. Coalescence of the social movement began as protesters in Ferguson, the site of the shooting, took to the streets, and before the year was up protests happened in Cleveland, Miami, Boston, Chicago, Baton Rouge, and other cities and events throughout the county (Altman, 2014). The Ferguson protestor’s “refusal to let a life be forgotten turned a local shooting into a national movement” (Altman, 2014). Formalization of this social movement was seen…

Charles Deslondes used his position of power and privilege to lead a slave rebellion in 1811, resulting in his early death at age 31. Like a true upstander, he stood up to the prejudice and discrimination engraved in the lives of slaves. He sacrificed everything he had for the slightest possibility of freedom for his people. Without upstanders like him in history, our world today would be a lot worse than it is now. Deslondes, originally from Hispaniola (today’s Haiti), was inspired to rebel by…

In the St. Louis County, Missouri, there is a city that was incorporated in the 1894 with a motto “Proud Past. Promising Future.” That later became better known with words like violence, police brutality and social unrest, it is called Ferguson city. We know this city in this time and age because a white police officer killed an 18-year-old named Michael Brown who was unarmed in 2014. The Country that we live in is going through hard times because we hear things like Police Brutality, racially…

When researched you will find a certain location in Louisiana is known for more than their seafood, the location is referred to as Cancer Alley. An area of approximately 85 miles along the Mississippi River that is located between the cities of Baton Rouge and New Orleans known as the “petrochemical corridor” is the headquarters for this Alley. The location received this name in 1997 after 15 cases of cancer was discovered in a two-block radius of one street. Later it was discovered that another…

The fragrant smell of cookies fresh out of the oven and the faint sound of humming over Saturday morning cartoons. These were a few of the things that I associated with grandmothers when I was younger. Red lipstick kisses and stern smacks on the butt when a child was in trouble. These were also things that I correlated with grandmothers. Growing up as a member of the black community, I was fed the community narrative that the grandmother is the root of the family. She provides warmth, wisdom,…

was a total shock to me. I cannot eat, I cannot sleep, and I have severe anxiety problems now trying to figure out what I'm going to do next. Through all of that I'm still performing my daily tasks. After that week I returned back to my store in Baton Rouge, back to reality that I'm homeless and living out of my car. Then I didn't want associates to know I was living out of my car prepping myself early each morning before work, and then afterwards trying to figure out…

Merritt that he and other lawmakers would seek enhanced criminal penalties for those who attack another special group, the police and their families. This proposal arose in the wake of these recent ambush-style killings of police in Dallas and Baton Rouge. (King) People can't just drive by ambush style and kill police officers who were actually innocent. Whats even worse is that more than half of the Indiana law enforcement agencies submitted no hate crime data to the FBI. According to an…

Unjust Systems Sister Helen Prejean, in her book Dead Man Walking, uses statistics, stories of injustice, and her childhood experiences to relate discrimination and poverty in cities like New Orleans to the death penalty: both are unfair systems that need to be reformed. Prejean first demonstrates ethos, using anecdotes of her experiences as a white child in the segregated 1950’s to convince the reader of her understanding of discrimination. After ethos, Prejean uses logos in the form of…

There are a lot of facts and negative descriptions about the police brutality. For example, the shootings in Baton Rouge, Falcon Heights, and Dallas have exposed many people to police brutality incidents. In a article by the American Psychological Association it states, “This reminds us that as a society work needs to be done to improve police and community relations…

The smell of the old town was always pleasant to Victoria Dubois' nose. He insisted there was one living in town, and so Vic arranged to make the collection herself. She had a very refined palate thanks to being a century old, give or take a few years, although just by looking at the young woman it was impossible to tell. The alabaster paleness of her skin that hadn't felt the kiss of sunlight in so many decades was likely the only give away to her condition. However, there was a significant…