Black Sabbath

which subjected black men into slavery. Black men were sold as property to white plantation owners to do the grueling work and suffer punishments as their owners saw fit. Slavery is appalling and even today those practices of deceivement still work; although, nowadays those practices are not used specifically for slavery they are nonetheless cruel and illicit. Based on the film and the book, 12 Years A Slave, religion is described to be forced upon those in slavery during sabbaths - instilling…

All 3 of these sentences are definitions of Plague. The Bubonic Plague is a monumental example of Plague. “The medieval black plague that ravaged Europe and killed a third of its population…transmitted to humans from infected rats by the oriental rat flea. In 14th century Europe, the victims of the black plague had bleeding below the skin which darkened their bodies. The Black Death was characterized by gangrene of the fingers, toes, and nose.” (cite this) The Bubonic Plague “originated in China…

the theory of black inferiority, and dispelling the idea that blacks are happy as slaves. Many slaveholders justified their cruelty by referencing the Bible. For example,…

about learning to read but now that he was not allowed to, it interested him more and he began to think about a whole new perspective on the matter. Douglass had always been a little confused about how it was that white people were able to enslave black people. Suddenly he had an answer. Slaves are kept down because they don't know any better. Douglass started to see the whole education issue in a new light, if he can learn to read, he would not have to be a slave anymore. Before Douglass set…

Frederick Douglass and Barack Obama both teach their fellow African Americans how to read, which rids them of the lack of knowledge that white people try to enforce on them. Obama informs the members of a poor black community that they are being ignored about by the building officials, as he states, “It was a legal notice, in small print, run in the classified section. It said that the CHA was soliciting bids from qualified contractors to remove asbestos from…

women, then and now, have buried their talents, gifts, and ideas under the bias judgments and opinions of those who racially profile them. As narrated by Patricia Collins, “Reclaiming Black women’s ideas involves discovering, reinterpreting, and, in many cases, analyzing for the first time the works of individual U.S. Black women thinkers who were so extraordinary that they did manage to have their ideas preserved.” Thus, we can find our identity, uniqueness, hidden in the extraordinary works of…

All beings possess a powerful weapon within their vessel. The Bible cautions its readers to not let it rule over them. The Quran apprises its readers that life and death resides in it. It can heal the emotionally wounded, and cut them even deeper in the same instant. It is the tongue, or in other words, Nommo which means the power of spoken word. Nommo is one of the terms I learn while taking Dr. Franklin’s African American history 101 course, and in my opinion, it is also the foundation for…

1968 she published her first book entitled Once, a collection of poetry, two years later in 1970 she published her first novel, Third Life of Grange Copeland. The welcome table is a short story written by Alice Walker. It is about an elderly black woman living in the south during the segregation era. The unnamed woman dresses in her best Sunday clothes, and against protest from a family member, she attempts to attend a “white” church. To her credit, she was able to enter the church, sit…

2nd ed. The C. Eric Lincoln Series On the Black Experience. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. Reverend Peter Randolph was a licensed Baptist minister who grew up as a child who listened to his mother encouraging him to “look to Jesus.” However, he witnessed challenges with his faith after seeing how Christian doctrine favored white people and dehumanized black people. The teaching of white churches was used as a tool of oppression and enslavement of black people. In his eyes, Sunday morning…

Vicki soon reported to officials that she’d gone with Damien and Jessie to an esbat, a devil-worshipping orgy in a field, where she witnessed about 10 youth, with faces and arms painted black, stripping and “touching each other”. Ultimately police brought in Jessie Misskelley for examination concerning the murders. Jessie was 17 and thought to be mildly retarded. Nonetheless a plain questioning became a full blown interrogation by police…