Economic Community of West African States

slave states directly meant that there would be “more southern congressmen and electoral votes” (Foner 2013, 358) and they resented it. The Northerners would hold this resentment for a long period of time and it would lead the North and the South to the Civil…

Black Americans were the only racial or ethnic group brought to America against their will. Africans came to be captured and sent to the Western Hemisphere as slaves (Sowell 184). They were submitted to forced labor and had no human rights. They were the property of their masters, an object that could be bought, sold, given or mortgaged according to their masters will (Maameri 125).Colonial America depended on agriculture and the near- decimation of the native Indians by warfare and diseases…

Gangsta rap was specifically popular on the west coast and eventually reached the ears of kids living in South Central Los Angeles. Artists like N.W.A., a group that grew up in South Central, and Ice-T represented California and constantly alluded to their experiences growing up in the “ghetto” in their songs. N.W.A.’s debut album, Straight Outta Compton, boasted it’s most controversial and popular track titled “Fuck tha Police”. Lyrics from the song state, “Young nigga got it bad cause I'm…

struggle of these black women in their work became the inspiration to an upcoming generation of black people. Their struggle would lead to the end of segregation in the United States and allow African American…

delves into the dynamics of Black men and women relationships within the United States. Franklin presented a common theme of acknowledging and rebuilding the schism of Black men and women. She traces gender relations from the Middle Passage to the fight of social equality in the Civil Rights Movement to the depiction of the Black family in the twenty-first century in media and popular culture. As a sociologist and African American family scholar, Franklin intended for this work to be a…

that “until Americans reckon with their compounding moral debts, America will never be whole”. He writes that after four hundred thirty-five years of racial injustice towards the African American community, the American government owes them. The slavery and slave-like conditions people were put in is something The United States should and will be ashamed of until the end of time. The horrific experiences and tragedies people endured are something that will hopefully never happen again. To think…

countries it is just as common as marriage between two people here in the United States, (Allison). According to "Legal Status of Polygamy," “in 2000, the United Nations Human Rights Committee considered polygamy a violation of the internationally binding International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) on the grounds that it violates the dignity of women, and recommended it be made illegal in all states.” This decision heavily influenced views on polygamy, and it further made…

in the West Indies. Motley attended New Haven’s integrated public schools and soon became a keen reader. She was inspired by books concerning civil rights heroes and at the age of 15 she decided to become a lawyer. Due to her family's economic situation, she could not afford to attend college immediately after graduating high school. Instead she took a job as a maid for a short time before finding a job with the National Youth Administration. While giving a speech at the local community center…

Residents of West Anniston refused to accept continual denials from Monsanto as to the potential health effects of PCBs which incidentally are still stated on their website today: “the health effects of PCBs have been extensively studied. Published studies have shown no consistent excesses in cancer.” (Monsanto) This claim flies directly in the face of EPA findings which state that PCBs are probable human carcinogens and these conclusions are supported by 15 peer reviews by experts on PCBs.…

the problem is solved. With this dependency people become less self-reliant and this puts them at a disadvantage Advances in communication is also responsible for the flourishing drug network within the Caribbean region and this has affected the economic potential of the Caribbean nations. Another disadvantage of globalization in the Caribbean has to do with the way in which it affects the Caribbean identity. Because the media is global in its reach, what we are seeing are changes in food,…