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While the façade that racism has ended and the fight for equality is over, there is an irreplaceable amount innocent lives that have been lost as a consequence to the ongoing dehumanization. For many generations, we have been separated by our skin color and treated unfairly. Violence has erupted, and while some of it has been settled, it would be naïve to say it is no longer prevalent. To further the path to equality, activists created and refined the “Black Lives Matter” movement. This movement…

camp for a long period of time, disease and sickness can spread extremely fast. Some sicknesses can become very deadly in the time of war, and we could lose many numbers by that way, and then, if that does happen, then there will be a need for more troopers to fight the war. Which means more people are drafted, and the entire process starts over…

While thinking of a revolutionary leader, Congressman John Robert Lewis came to mind. As a courageous transformational leader, he began his journey with the need of equality for African Americans. He was one of the "Big Six" leaders of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In his early mission for equality, he challenged the law and with determination for change but the justice system let him down. According to his biography, despite more than 40 arrests,…

dignity. One especially during his march where he and 50,000 other black and white protestors marched from Salem to Alabama’s capital Montgomery. This march was one of the most violent given the nickname, Bloody Sunday. The protesters were met by state troopers and were sprayed by fire hoses, attacked by vicious dogs and had poisonous gas thrown at them. While all of that was going on Martin Luther King Jr. still stayed calm and did not fight back. In the book A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J.…

African Americans being subject to excessive violence and unlawful killings by the institution that is meant to protect them continues with no solution or abatement likely. Sophia Kennedy discusses the repeating pattern of violence and looks at the steps necessary to prevent it. An unarmed man shot. Riots. Looting. Millions of dollars in damage. This isn’t the first time. Dan Lindsay and T.J Martin’s Documentary LA 92 documents the Los Angeles riots of 1992. In that year Rodney King was…

Everlasting Nightmare On January 30, 1933 the shocking Holocaust begin. The unimaginable malevolence was unleashed on the Jews by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party. German troopers rash the innocent homes of Jews, forcing them to bow underneath. The Jews living an everyday normal life were now a target for an inhuman evil man, Adolf Hitler. We read and learn about the terrifying demonstrations in the concentration camps by unique and individual stories from the surviving Jews. I believe their stories…

Returning to school after having been in the newspaper, the Rocket Boys discover that they are treated a bit differently. The football players are no longer the heroes, and while they have not achieved the level of hero yet, they are better off. The school curriculum has changed due to Sputnik with hours of homework every night. In addition to this, Sonny is trying to learn calculus and other math in order to be able to launch his rockets better. Miss Riley is his chemistry teacher who one day…

Buffalo Bill had a hard life as a kid and after his father abandoned the farm and went to stage driving , he had to help support the family, then after his mother and father passed, he had a family of his own that he could support, because he was a successful rifleman and a buffalo hunter. Buffalo Bill (William Frederick Cody)was born on February 26,1846 to his parents named Isaac Leacock Cody and Mary Ann Leacock Cody. He lived with them until Bill's father abandoned the farm they were at,…

The usual circus that makes up the months preceding the United States Presidential Elections has seen quite the ripple: Donald J. Trump, billionaire and businessman, has announced his bid for the Oval Office in June 2015. His campaign thus far has been called many things–needed, wanted, racist, fascist, and all-around interesting–but what it cannot be called is unprecedented. Trump has taken the same path of many political fomenters before him. Donald Trump is without a doubt a demagogue; what…

volunteered bolstered the fight for equal rights and motivated king to plan a march from Selma to Montgomery in Alabama. On Sunday, March 7, 1965 king lead a group of protesters over a bridge to begin the march Alabama’s Governor George Wallace sent state troopers to prevent the marchers from crossing police beat the marchers giving the event the name bloody Sunday the nation was shocked and President Lyndon Johnson announced a new policy aimed at winning African-Americans the right to vote.…