Black Friday

“Compare the way two texts you have studied represent the same idea or same group.” Introduction: The Help and No Sugar both represent the same ideas of racism and inequality in a society with the mistreatment of African-American and Aboriginal people from white people. No Sugar is a play written by Jack Davis and is about the Millimurra family’s stand against government ‘protection’ in Australia during the 1930’s. This play portrays the inequality between aboriginals and white Australians.…

Years seem to pass by and the same issue just keep on occurring. The issue of the mistreatment and brutality among African Americans, especially targeting young African American men. Fruitvale Station, a movie released in 2013 viewed, once again, viewed the brutality upon African American men. Throughout history, the media has put a lens on African American Brutality, this exploration became popular to America during the Civil Rights Movement. There were many incidents of brutality before the…

inner cities are filled with drugs and violence. It would increase the crimes in the inner cities. The members of Project 21 said that, “paying reparations would be logistically impossible and add that such payments would not heal the ills of the black…

On the 13th of July 2015, Sandra Bland a 28-year-old black African American was discovered hanging in a cell. Police officials have ruled the death of Sandra Bland as a suicide. However, black citizens refuse to believe this claim. Black citizens accuse the police of racially and sexually abusing Sandra Bland. Three days prior, Sandra Bland was stopped by the police officer Brian Encinia over a minor traffic incident. Footage from the police dash cam showed the officer forcing Bland out of the…

freedom, and fighter of injustice, and fighter of Black Liberation. DuBois is an inspiration not only to sociology but to Black lives matter activist. He noticed the race problem and was trying to solve it and cure colored prejudice. W.E.B. DuBois was an influential leader, his experience was one of the reasons why he such an influential leader, and he made a great contribution to Black movement. In what ways didW.E.B DuBois actions help with the Black Lives Matter movement? In Modern days…

secession, the Emancipation Proclamation, the ratification of amendments 13 through 15, the Ku Klux Klan, the Freedman’s Bureau and Black Codes. Throughout the era of 1860-1877, the constitutional and social developments both contributed…

B Dubois were both activists that wanted to help elevate African Americans by challenging white supremacy, but they did have different routes they took in order to contribute to the black community. Booker T. wanted blacks to attend schools, but to enhance their agricultural skills, whereas W.E.B Dubois wanted blacks to get an education, cultivate the mind and become leaders. In the “African Americans: A Concise History”, Booker T. Washington stated, “No race can prosper till it learns that…

better person but others too. In his book Black Boy, he helped me empathize and sympathize with him, his family, and the black community through his writing. When Richard Wright was young he went through terrible situations that no child should ever go through. He was almost beaten to death by his mother, discriminated towards by whites, and felt alienation with his own black community.…

Man Child: A Black Lesbian Feminist’s Response Firstly, Audre Lorde is writing this story around 1970s, that must have been a very hard to be a person of color but, a lesbian in an inter racial, same gender relationship. When she first felt that it was important to make her son stand up to the bullies, i agreed with her. After reading more and seeing how she shared with her son i changed my mind. I was completly with her that her son need to be taught how to be strong as a person of color. It…

One of the most interesting part about studying historical events is being able to see the impacts still felt today, from decisions made hundreds of years ago. From the time America got its independence until today, there are still similarities in the equality gap among the population. Granted, the inequality may not be as extreme or easy to see at times, but no one can deny that it still exists. For example, the wage gap between genders, discrimination against people of color, and the defensive…