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function member of society who just happened to be a former slave. Zora Neale Hurston was a prominent writer and activist who helped shed light on the plight of the black person in modern white society through her travels to boarding school and New York city. Langston Hughes through his literature encouraged blacks to unite and fight against racism across…

The New Negro According to “The Muse” in 1920 a famous journalist H. l Mencken Gave Chicago the name “literary capital of the united states”. The writers of Chicago literary capital moved to the fast growing of the world’s great cities. The most immediate influence of white Chicago writers on African American letters were in poetry. There was a lot of writers of the Chicago literacy but Johnson wrote most of them. Johnson lived in New York studied in Columbia university school of journalism .for…

Gentrification has more to do with the socioeconomic of new residents, and not race, although there is a correlation (Darity, 1983). The makeup of gentrification…

Jane Hirshfield and Joy Harjo seem to share different experiences and it’s evident in their writing. Hirshfield was born in New York City and graduated from Princeton University’s first graduating class that included women. On the other hand we have Joy Harjo who was born in Oklahom and is a member of the Mvskoke Nation. Both on what seems to be complete opposite ends of the spectrum. In a divided America, there is a long-standing history between the two and however the injustices are more…

Toronto has become a city resplendent with post-modern…

against the United States of America on September the 11th, 2001. The events of September 11th were carried out by members of the terrorist group Al Queda. The terrorists, lead by Osama Bin Laden, had taken control of four flights: departing from Boston, New Jersey, and Washington D.C. The terrorists killed the flights' pilots in order to gain full control of the aircrafts. At 8:56 AM, the first plane flew into the World Trade Center's north tower, leaving a hole in the building and setting the…

African American decided to move North. As a result, thousands of African Americans now lived in big cities. Although not as oppressive, the Northern whites did not treat the African Americans well. They found themselves in terrible slums in urban areas. The largest…

On September 11th two hijacked planes hit the World Trade Center in New York City killed about 2,752 people. The other plane crashed into the Pentagon and killed 189 people. This was said to be the largest attack on U.S. since Pearl Harbor. There were about 19 hijackers and it was said that they were from Saudi Arabia and were members of Al-Queda, which was led by Osama Bin Laden. This tragic event brought a lot of attention across America. People all over the country have different opinions of…

economies with trading hubs in cities like Chicago. This transformation from rural to urban sparked the Great Migration, a mass movement of African Americans from the South to industrialized cities in the North. This influx of African American communities challenged the existing racial constructs in the metropolis and gave rise to new socially constructed identities and means of self-expression. Davarian L. Baldwin examines these identities and expressions in Chicago’s New Negroes: Modernity,…

During my time at New Life Community Development and at the St. John’s Bread and Life Mobile Soup Kitchen, I learned quite a few valuable things. When I first started my academic service learning, I went in with the attitude of getting the job done and leaving. I had no intention of enjoying the experience. Although that changed when I walked into the Mobile Soup Kitchen on a grimy Monday afternoon with a whole line of people waiting outside the truck. I immediately started to prepare for the…