United States counties with African American majority populations

across our great state. “I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character” (Martin Luther King Jr.) Many people have been impacted by racial sayings and discrimination. The election of a black president has done little to help discrimination. Increasing interracial and intercultural communication in the world has yet to end racism nationwide; Unfortunately, this includes the sooner state -- Oklahoma.…

through a system called the Electoral College. Other systems like the direct popular vote or the national popular vote may work in democracies, but the United States is a federal republic not a democracy. While allowing states to be represented in a manner consistent with their size, the Electoral College has the exceptional power of allowing small states and rural areas to still maintain their influence in the government. This allows us to have more moderate policies and protecting the rights…

had captured larges sections of the South, and some states were ready to have their governments rebuilt”. The Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction was used to reconstruct and reunify the United States (“Lincoln”). Abraham Lincoln had a plan to begin rebuilding the United States. He did this in 1863, with his Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction. The reason Lincoln created the proclamation was to determine how the Southern states would be restored under the Union after the war.…

This made American’s cringe in disgust that this act was had occurred in their own country. The four officers that partook in the beating were all acquitted of the crime. Many believed that the officers were plain guilty of the crime they were being acquitted of. This is what sparked the LA riots, soon the city was up in flames. Despite them being acquitted of the crime individuals that partook in the riots believed they had to take justice into their own hands and wrongfully started looting,…

reports in his Washington Post article on September 29, 2014 that the United States has the highest infant mortality rate of the 27 ranked wealthiest countries. He states that, “A baby born in the U.S. is nearly three times as likely to die during her first year of life as one born in Finland or Japan.” The article also states that even though healthcare spending levels are significantly higher in the United States an American baby is more than twice as likely to die in her first year of life…

The American Dream is a longstanding idea that the United States holds endless opportunities with few barriers other than hard work and perseverance. However, the difficult truth is that it is a land filled with unequal opportunity, allowing certain people to prosper over others. Unfortunately this harsh reality is a very prevalent issue in school systems throughout America due to educational inequality. This problem is especially demonstrated through students’ unequal access to education. It…

Metaphysical Club by Louis Menard, and Amusing the Million by John F. Kasson all share this common theme of gradual change by elaborating on the continuity of issues and beliefs and their slow modification; however, each details a specific change in American life. Slavery by Another Name describes the harrowing details of convict leasing and other mistreatment that took place in the south after the emancipation of the slaves in 1863 until into the twentieth century.…

black body,” were words I heard repeatedly as a child. For the longest time I considered those words a compliment. As an African American girl native to the Congo, I was naïve enough to think this statement meant how fully immersed with American culture my appearance, language, and every aspect of my personality was becoming. To me, those words held acceptance from my American friends and families—the only imaginable thing any foreign child yearns for. It hadn’t occurred to me that underneath…

agreed to provide some accommodations to student learning programs in order to guide them to success. Students who were accepted to the voucher program had to be admitted sight unseen. Upon arrival of their school records we learned that a vast majority of the students had learning needs that were far beyond what the schools Learning Center was prepared to provide. Because of their immigrant issues many of the students were not tested. A few were struggling with ESL and ELL issues. Curley…

1. Cultural boundaries- boundaries between states that coincide with differences in ethnicity, especially language and religion; another cultural boundary is drawn according to geometry. Example: Based on language, Quebec, and a can be considered a cultural boundary. In Quebec, french is their official language, but the rest of the country predominantly speaks English. Chinatown, which exists in New York City, is another example. Asian’s predominantly inhabit this area, and languages such as…