Category: African American

The number of people in prison at the end of 2017 was 1,486,000 and out of those 436,500, were white. This means that around 75% of all people in prison are races other than white. Racism in America started when the first people came to America and is still happening today after almost 200 years.…

80-90% of blacks and Latino Americans are put behind bars for a drug bust. A drug bust is to seize of illegal drugs by law enforcement. A drug bust also can wrongfully incriminate people of color including blacks and Latino Americans. By wrongfully incriminating people of color one can lose their homes, jobs, and even…

The time period in US American History known as The Roaring 20s and eventually the The Great Depression refers to a decade, of economic prosperity in major cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, London, Berlin, and Paris. It was an era of mass consumerism, with the bloom of Jazz, flappers, and the Harlem…

Durham’s work on Destination Freedom based on the verifiable methodology of Herbert Aptheker’s momentous book, American Negro Slave Revolts, first distributed in 1943, which featured the steady nearness of obstruction among slaves in the US. Aptheker was remarkably a customary supporter of the arrangement. The arrangement was subsidized for the most part by WMAQ, a…

Introduction As a woman of black African decent, I am sometimes overwhelmed with disbelief about the negative perception of others towards other black African women in terms of HIV and AIDS. Some incidents such as a routine visit to the hospital in Belgium for a thigh rush led to a test for HIV/AIDS. On a…

This article claims that the rate of obesity is on the rise. Obesity rates have been increasing for a long time now, but it is expanding more than ever now. Since the years of 2005 and 2012, the nations obesity rate is at or above a forty percent. This is concerning considering that about ten…

Why are race and stereotypes such a prevalent problem within the education system? Both schools and their students have a responsibility when it comes to the safety and education of the pupils. Most people would agree that the responsibility is shared based on age –or as a general guideline, a 50-50 split. This, however, is…

Introduction Black lives matter is a large organization that helps incidents of lives being taken by police and all violence against black people. My main focus on this essay is going to include police brutality, Racism against African-Americans, and as a whole, the movement of Black Lives Matter. I’m also going to talk about how…

I came to the United States at the age of 12, and as a young African American growing up in Nigeria, most of what I heard about America painted it as some sort of utopia land teeming with opportunities, wealth, and quality education. In Nigeria, there had never been any discussion about racial discrimination, stereotypes…

Abstract This paper explores the many challenges minorities face in the workplace. Over the past 100 years African-Americans have struggled with being considered as equal as the white counterpart and women as equal to the male gender, in life and at work. African-American minorities have made major educational and career advances, but still struggle significantly…