The American Spectator

Geronimo: A True American The brave Bedonkohe Apache leader Geronimo was able to accomplish many astonishing feats before he died at the age of seventy-nine in 1909. Some of these achievements include continuing his journey of bettering the lives of his people despite his own family being murdered when he was only twenty-nine (27). Geronimo fully embodies the hard-working and no excuses attitude that many Americans strive for. Geronimo in many ways possesses the same moral code and ideas that…

changes Malcolm undergoes to become one of the leading voices in the call for African American equality, and contribute to the power and beauty of the text that immerses the reader in the story of Malcolm’s transformation. In order to drive…

Humans don’t fear darkness, they fear the unknown that comes along with it, and it is through the unknown that we habitually find our most rural self. Fear is like death, it doesn’t care who you are, it attacks everyone equally. The common man doesn’t need to read 1,000 books to understand fear, they don’t need a doctorate degree to know agony, or a history lesson to learn about creation. Mark Rothko made a political statement by making his art an equalizer between humans. One of his last series…

in Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Beals, I Never Had It Made by Jackie Robinson, and “The Father of Chinese Aviation” written by Rebecca Maksel, emphasizing Feng Ru as being the topic. Melba Beals made her mark by becoming one of the first African-Americans to be integrated into an all white school, improving education for people of her own kind, Jackie Robinson by becoming the first black person to play in the major…

The sport we in the United States know as football is more so called gridiron football, for the vertical yard lines that mark the field. Closely related to some English sports, rugby and soccer gridiron football originated at collages in North America, primarily the United States, in the late 19th century. On November 6 1869, the players from Princeton and Rutgers held the first intercollegiate football contest in New Brunswick, New Jersey, playing a soccer style game with rules adapted from the…

beneath the trampling feet to emerge as Skelans, and before long the mix of human and Skelan become too many to number. Meanwhile, a few blocks away, tourists visiting the historic Fort York would stand in awe and bewilderment at authentic British and American soldiers from the War of 1812. The now skeletons, dressed in proper battle dress of the era, re-enacted the famous “Battle for York.” -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BY THE…

the blacks, that time had now ended. The black community lost their key ally. In the book New Perspectives on the History of the South : After Slavery : Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South, Brian Kelly writes that the African American “triumph marked not so much a new trend in black thinking as the eclipse of the black working-class politics that had flickered so brightly, yet…

In memory of the Father Allah aka, Clarence 13X Smith; all praise due to Allah the beneficent the merciful and to the culture of the Gods and Earths Nation, the Suns of almighty God Allah and his 5%. The FOA represents-Fruit of Allah, which significantly means “Fighting in the name of Allah,” and the FOA has been since the beginning of time, especially through his Sons, Prophets and Messengers. However, never has it been so intense the struggle and battle for his people, than the fight for…

seem to be wrapped up in the local football teams—places like Stark County, Ohio, where the legendary Massillon High School Tigers draw more than 100,000 spectators per year, or Midland-Odessa, Texas, where the annual Permian-Lee rivalry draws more than 20,000 partisans. Football's popularity helps make the sport a symbolic battle field in American "culture wars." For its proponents, football provides the ideal proving ground for young men to test and develop their manhood, instilling values…

Jackie Robinson was one of the most ambitious human being to walk across this Earth. His drive to accomplish what he dreamed of made him a legend in many ways. Jackie Robinson forever changed the face of American history on Opening Day 1947, as he became one of the most influential athletes to break the color barrier in professional sports, and in several ways, the color barrier in America. Robinson was born into a poor black family in the South. From the jump he had to deal with a racist nation…