Struggles of Black Rights Leaders

face police brutality daily, many women endure the same pain. The Black Lives Matter movement is not only supposed to focus on one gender, it is supposed to be centered on all black people of color. How can a movement be called Black Lives Matter when the lives on display are males? Also, if women’s stories are included in the movement, then the Black Lives Matter movement will not seem so secluded. Every woman has the same rights that men do, therefore, it would be better to acknowledge and…

study I chose is found in chapter 5: Human Rights Education - The National Center for Human Rights Education. This case study targets the lack of human rights and social change education throughout the country. The main goal of this movement was to help humans understand, protect, and fight for their rights. Loretta Ross, founder of the National Center for Human Rights Education, believed that in order for everyone to understand and protect their rights, they first must be knowledgeable about…

enlightens us about the morality of the black lives matter movement. However, the concept of duty can be abstract based on apriori ideas. So we need to follow Kant, by creating a maxim and testing that maxim in the context of the categorical empirical. Racial profiling by law enforcement Nationwide is wrong and our maxim must guard against such immorality. Therefore, to uphold the universal human rights, particularly humanity’s right to life and the right to fair trial, laws must be written and…

A Remarkable work of literature that conveys the struggle of African Americans in the 1950’s is “A Raisin in The Sun” by Loraine Hansberry. Hansberry talks about the struggles a family dealt with. Issues such as being a working class black family and most of all dealing with racism. Martin Luther King Jr. fought for equality, which made history in a speech called “I Have a Dream”. The Overdue change of America took great people like Martin Luther King Jr. to step up on what they believed in.…

the legal segregation of African-American citizens, as well as the creation of civil rights such as voting was accomplished (Martin Luther King Jr. Bio). As well as every African American, King “have a life dream” that someday, after non-violent protests and apparent disagreements the chance of having a peaceful life will be accomplished. That whites would understand the way blacks have been treated. And that if black Americans did not fight for what they deserve such as Rosa Parks did, for…

and their concerns were heard. The outcomes of the Civil Rights Movement, female activism, Vietnam War, and…

successful black athletes like Muhammad Ali that spoke on the behalf of African Americans on injustices that paved the way in breaking those parameters and gain black power. The activism that created change by those black leaders has faded away in today’s black athletes, largely in response to the emulation of the greatest athlete of the 20th century, Michael Jordan. Revered globally as a hero and a “God”, with millions of followers wanting to be like Mike, Jordan’s influence influenced black…

in education, had concluded that ignorance and greed, are fundamentally responsible for race prejudice in America. His statement, radical for its time, was a derivative of his turbulent life and inversely a fine example that collars this concept: struggle and criticism are the pre-requisites to greatness in this world. Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925, in Omaha, Nebraska.…

Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. led the charge of civil rights despite disagreeing with the basic factors of method and intention. Malcolm X’s famous speech The Ballot or The Bullet remains integral to his methods for attaining his goals. King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail communicates his intentions as well as his celebrated methods of civil disobedience. Malcolm X and King often critiqued the other in their work either in speeches or in writing; in his speech, Malcolm X calls attention to…

describes how the term race has caused severe distinctions amongst groups of individuals, which can go as far as a literal life or death issue. In the book Between the World and Me, Coates writes a letter to his fifteen year old son on how it is to be black in Amerikkka. He does that by intergrading his personal experiences, historical content, and knowledgeable developments. Coates was not too content on the ideal of school, however, attending Howard University allowed him to explore further…