Civil and political rights

Even after the Civil War, in which all African-Americans no longer were deemed as slaves, the life of the black person did not get easier. For generations, the struggle to come out of impoverished lifestyles had been deemed as almost impossible. Faced by segregation, no equal rights, and the KKK, the newly freed African-Americans were not able to completely submerge themselves to “freedom”. Little by little, new opportunities emerged; however, the depths of acrimony and pain prevented blacks to…

receive a long-term sentencing comparable to violent offenders. Most of these males start selling drugs, and getting arrested at a young age, which happens to be during secondary and post-secondary education. Being imprisoned, they are deprived of rights, education, and are unable to receive reasonable…

of this paper is to analyze sexual harassment and its relation to power. Sexual harassment in the workplace has existed since the entrance of women into this setting. The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act deal with sexual harassment in the workplace. Women were undermined and considered unworthy of many positions. Therefore, men in superior positions took advantage of their power. Ultimately, workplaces had to establish stricter rules to…

Video: “Rape in the Fields” in retrospective. Frontline, Univision, the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley, and the Center for Investigative Reporting partnered a year long investigation, to tell “the story of the hidden price many migrant women working in America’s fields and packing plants pay to stay employed and provide for their families”. Their collaboration resulted on the hour-long documentary “Rape in the Fields” that aired June 25, 2013. The video shines a light one the…

into play. The idea of equality of result is that they get a head start in equality so they can stay equal with men and the majority. Men have always had a head start in society; women rights have always been a big issue and a fight. Astonishing that the U.S had to create the 19th amendment to grant women the right to the vote. Women have always been fighting to get equal pay as men; I believe women tend to work harder than men so they can prove themselves in the workplace. Even…

been the subject of large debates; “Congress first addressed the issue more than four decades ago in the Equal Pay Act of 1963, mandating an ‘equal pay for equal work’ standard, and addressed it again the following year in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act” (Pay 3-32). On June 10, 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed into law the Equal Pay Act…

The fallacy of meritocracy holds no true weight when considering years of gatekeeping, social inequalities and discriminatory practices perpetrated against poor young African Americans. There can never be a colorblind society if biased SAT’s, affirmative action and multicultural competency programs fail to be effective on university campuses across the nation. The notion of diversity is only an idea in theory, never to be fully instituted or absorbed into the social fabric of American culture.…

All men are equal, but their circumstances are not. America bears an ugly history of racial segregation in cities, mostly due to the practice of redlining. Lending companies and banks withhold mortgages and other loans from people who live in neighborhoods of certain ethnic makeups. In a perfect world, arbitrary factors such as race would not affect someone’s ability to buy a home. Unfortunately, we do not live in a perfect world. Even in our supposedly “progressive” nation, prejudice against…

One important issue facing our country is housing discrimination. The main reason why we still need to fight housing discrimination and it is such of an unfair problem is that the people being discriminated against can’t have the same opportunities as everyone else because they can’t live where they want to based on something they have no say in, like the color of their skin or which country they were born in. To put a permanent end to it, we need to ensure that all people are protected under…

decided to discuss is age discrimination. During 1967, the federal law under the Age Discrimination Employment Act (ADEA) was enforced to protect employees’ ages 40 or older rights to work and in 1986 to protect mandatory retirement. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) enforcement under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, “the law makes it illegal to discriminate against someone on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex. The law also makes it illegal to…