The Civil Rights movement in The United States of America came to a closing around 50 years ago. While some may have thought that the United States would become less racially discriminating after the election of the first black president in 2008, there has been continued violence and oppression which has brought around a new … Read more
Discrimination towards us is never over: many fellow African-Americans tell themselves and others every single day. One father/author, Ta-Nehisi Coates, published “Letter to my son” on July 4th, 2015 on The Atlantic, and he is writing a letter to his son discussing the discrimination they went through years prior and now. Coates builds his credibility … Read more
Question #1 Given what you read, as well as what you saw in the movie, why would authorities and white residents refer to the unrest in Detroit as a "riot" and black residents refer to it as a "rebellion"? Include at least two quotes from the assigned readings (or other sources, if you like) … Read more
Compared to most music genres; Hip hop and rap music is fairly new and fresh. Originating around the 1970s, hip hop has gone through many different eras and has now emerged as one of the most popular music genres that is listened to today. With its emerging popularity, hip hop also is one of the … Read more
The Pepsi advertisement, “Live for Now” was released on April 4th of 2017. The rhetorical strategies that Pepsi uses within the commercial are repetition, metaphor, symbolism, imagery and juxtaposition. The commercial is juxtaposed with the controversy surrounding the Pepsi advertisement, which features Kendall Jenner, a Kardashian, the first family of American entrepreneurial celebrity. The sheer … Read more
Black Lives Matter and Racism Racism is when a race believes that it is superior to another competition resulting in discrimination, hatred, and prejudice towards people based on their color, national origin or ethnicity. Most people associate racism only with the acts of violence, harassment, and abuses, but also name calling inappropriate jokes, or rather … Read more
It becomes clear how the title “In the Dark” was chosen, as black people are unfairly left out of opportunities to succeed or to at least ensure that processes and treatment are equal compared to white people. An example of resource inequality is shown in the communities efforts to raise money to do what they … Read more
African American culture has become widely known for their Hip-Hop music and interaction with police brutality and the government. Through this, different African American artists created something to combat these issues. The actions and choices that artists make during their career, influence future generations to expand the legacy. Along with the influence that Run DMC … Read more
The Stanford prison experiment is one of the most influential and important experiments conducted in the history of psychology. In a study to explore social identities, Philip Zimbardo questioned what would happen if ordinary people were assigned the roles of prisoners and guards, he wondered if these people would adapt characteristics attached to those positions. … Read more
Nearly fifty years ago, Jamaica received independence from Great Britain, but that was not the only obstacle Jamaicans had to encounter. In the 1970’s Jamaica had experienced an urban social crisis where the poverty rate was at an all time high. Reggae music first emerged in Jamaica with the sole purpose of being the voice … Read more
The fight for equality has been fought for many years throughout American History and fought by multiple ethnicities. For African Americans this fight was not only fought to gain equal civil rights but also to allow a change at achieving the American dream. While the United States was faced with the Civil Rights Movements a … Read more
The United States guarantees freedom of the press to an extent that is unrivaled by any other country. The complete and uninterrupted freedom of the people to express their ideas in writing, on television, or on the radio has created a media landscape with a large and diverse spectrum of media outlets. Media in the … Read more
The topic I would like to explore is Hate Crimes and the question of how does the Civil Rights Act protect against police brutality and the defense of minorities but also dismiss these rights as well? This question comes to an issue that all ethnic minorities, as well as people of color all, have … Read more
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech on August 28, 1963. He spoke to over 250,000 people in Washington, D.C. at the Lincoln Memorial for the “March on Washington” which was part of a civil rights demonstration. King was one of the major civil rights leader and conducted many … Read more
The film Selma directed by Ava DuVernay is a film that follows the civil rights movement in America, specifically the three month period in 1965 in Selma, Alabama. The focus of the film is the three-month period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a series of marches and campaigns to secure equal … Read more
