Category: African American

Americas demographic has been skewed to the advantage of white people throughout its history. From slavery to Jim Crow laws, the systems in place has always valued the white majority. As recently as 2018, the US census has shown that white people make up around 62.4% of the United States. As a result of this,…

Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister who played a very important part in the American Civil Rights movement. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968 by James Earl Ray (History.com Editors). What King wanted was to fight for equal rights for African Americans. The reason he fought for the African Americans was…

Over thousands of years of history has shown how humans have survived and adapted to change and conflict. For a long period in American history, African Americans were considered second-class citizens and were slaves to white Americans due to their skin color and wealth. After years of being discriminated against, African Americans started to fight…

Frederick Douglass was a social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman from the United States. He became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York after escaping from slavery in Maryland, taking note of his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. Frederick Douglass accomplished many things in the fight for freedom of…

When debating to what degree racism fuelled the start and expansion of colonial plantations, one must recognise first and foremost that racial prejudice plays a large role in maintaining the hierarchy of the plantations. A question that often arises in this debate is whether racism was around before slavery, or if it occurred as a…

Before Malcolm X was even born, he had issues with racism and the KKK, while his mother was still pregnant with him hooded Klan members broke windows at his family home in Omaha Nebraska. Malcolm’s father; Earl Little had previously made enemies with white supremacists by working with Marcus Garveys Universal Negro Improvement Association. Earl…

The Civil Rights Movement that began in the late 1950’s won for African-Americans basic rights long denied to them, inspired other discriminated groups to fight for their own rights, and had a deep effect on American society. After the Civil War, the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the Constitution were supposed to guarantee equal…

Issue- Explore how the African American experience of criminalization is discussed in debates surrounding the Black Lives Matter movement. Quote- Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question& How does it feel to be a problem? (3) Annotated Bibliography Golash-Boza, Tanya. Structural Racism, Criminalization, and Pathways to Deportation for Dominican and…

The Color Purple, by the American novelist Alice Walker, is not only intense and insightful, but a very thought-provoking book to read. By intense and thought-provoking, I am speaking about how the book touches and analyzes incredibly difficult and trifling aspects of the life of a poverty-ridden, African American woman under oppression in the early…

In the movie Sankofa, the audience was first introduced to slavery and unjust treatment amongst African-Americans, through a number of different scenarios played out in the movie. The opening of the movie starts and engages the audience with a woman named, Mona as a white tourist who is photographing her in modern-day Ghana. Many tourists…