Economic Community of West African States

Which is true, the changes she includes is segregation against ethic groups, politics ignoring the cries of the community, and violence plaguing the streets, in many Chicago neighborhoods. One neighborhood in particular is the Back of the Yards. The back of the Yards is located on the Southside of Chicago…

In “Early African American Muslim Movements and the Qur’an,” Herbert Berg seeks to evaluate the usefulness of the Qur’an in the Moorish Science Temple of America and the Nation of Islam movements, both having different interpretations of what it means to be a black Muslim. Berg argues that the Qur’an was used in these early African American Muslim organizations because of its independence from Christianity and “its ability to confer Islamic legitimacy on their movements and thus authority on…

based upon economics. After 1830, almost all abolitionists were in the North. Most of them were middle-class people who had no stake in the conservation or destruction of slavery. Since slavery was a moral offense and not an economic wrong to these people, they came to look upon economics in slavery as a break of the laws of God. Just as the pro-slavery group wrote its arguments for fellow southerners, northern abolitionists took their campaign to their fellow regional citizens. African slavery…

this culture among West Africans, especially in Dakar, the capital of Senegal. This “hardcore” Senegalese duo was formed in 1992, originally with a third member, Lord Alaji Man, up until 2007 when the group officially changed its name to Daara J Family. This group, whose names means “school of life” in their native language, Wolof, continues to discuss political realities such as the history of African slavery, the politics of blackness, and ultimately, local, as well as Pan-African issues.…

the effects of African American newspapers on social and political life in America. Navigating life after slavery was often guided by the images and ideas seen in mainstream media. The press attempted to counteract the images of vilification and oppression by giving blacks as sense of worth and power. The press created a sense of control for black Americans that would allow them to change the course of history. After decades of vilification and oppression without any power, African Americans…

the course of desegregating American public education, Brown v. Board of Education, in a revolutionary resolution. Another powerful action came from Congress for school desegregation by the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act In 1971. The United States’ government turned actively against school desegregation in 1981 under the Reagan administration, in which, the Justice Department inverted policy on many undecided cases and attacked urban desegregation orders. Congress accepted the…

Over the past year, Ebola has been making headlines due to the toll it has taken over the West African population and over those that have come in close contact with Ebola victims.Over nine thousand people have died out of the 23,000 infected. As a responsible world citizen, the US has helped Africa by sending hundreds of troops to Africa. They…

people from different areas of the world disrupted the peaceful existence of the indigenous people. Most of these indigenous people were affected by starvation, abuse, massacre, and diseases. The Native American fought with the other immigrant communities, as there were widespread skirmishes. The habitat, culture and the infrastructure were destroyed, the natural land and environment facing degradation. Poisonous chemical elements such as cyanide, mercury, arsenic and other toxic substances were…

the Western white men “sitting in offices.” (Clinton, 1994) She is a Rwandan Tutsi, and an African who has no worth for them. After the Jewish holocaust in Germany, the world said “never again” and adopted the UN convention and passed the charter to prevent genocide from ever happening again. This need to prevent and punish those who orchestrate genocide seemed to be a concern to the international community, so much so that Genocide was defined as a crime under international law in the UN…

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered (LGBT). At that time, the community was entirely homophobic and standing staunchly to the fight against discrimination of the gay community. Harvey Milk was born on May 1930 in Woodmere, New York. He grew up in a middle-class Jewish home. Milk grew up knowing his sexual orientation from his young age, as a teenager, he was different from the rest of his peers (West 184). He graduated from Albany State College in 1951and joined the U.S Navy…