Essays on Black People

Debate of Washington v. DuBois v. Garvey During the early 20th century the three famous African American leaders including, W. E. B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and Marcus Garvey had compelling visions for the African American community. The reconstruction of the civil war did not come with the desired hope of the complete right of citizens to be free of slavery. In the 1980s a terrorist group known as the Ku Klux Klan played a significant role in realizing changes that were expected since they introduced racial segregation laws, lynching, and voting restrictions compromising the rights brought about ...

The story “How to Date a Brown Girl” is told as pointers for African men, or black men. The story tells the expectations coming from a white, or half-white woman when she dates an African guy. Nevertheless, the story, in general, is about trying to win a woman, despite the differences in color and race (Diaz 1-3). The story speaks about the truth of the current society. It may be coming from the author’s experience or not, but the feeling of negativity can be seen in every part of the story. It is as if the author is ...

Chapter Review

The idealism of race and property has existed since the early 20th century. The individual's race determined the economic, political, and social security. The author’s grandmother struggles with survival with two children living as a single mother. Eventually, she hides her identity as a Black woman at workplaces dominated by whites in order to secure her job. Her story illustrates the valorization of whiteness as treasured property in a society built on a racial castle (Harris, 1993). White supremacy over the Black people and Native American people transformed whiteness from color, to race, to status, and eventually to ...

Slavery was a part of the American culture for almost a whole decade (1776-1865), and during that time, many people had to suffer inhumanly for the only solid reason of being a bit different from someone else. There is no way of wiping the past from the memories of those who have struggled, which means that the terror of slavery will always be a part of the human history. As the experience shows, world history is far from being pretty. It has presented its evils so many times that merely counting them would take ages. Every major society, every ...

Q1 (a) Adichie’s essay presented two basic examples based on the concept of feminism that exists in the minds of men. At first, she illustrated that how she preferred to wear clothes that were less feminine while going to her graduation school. The example gives an impression to the audience that men in the society think that girls are a weaker entity. It also provides an idea that girls have insecurity. Therefore, they tend to look manly to prove themselves as stronger while making a public appearance Q1 (b) Another example that Adichie’s essay has provided is ...

The decade of 1845 to 1855 witnessed a rapid rise in abolitionist sentiments across the United States. Interestingly, at the forefront of the abolition movement were ex-slaves narrating their experiences in the hopes of eliciting a response from the anti-slavery forces. Now, and in perhaps the most effective tactic that the slaves employed, their narratives counteracted the dehumanizing nature of slavery. In other words, rather than accept the notion of white supremacy on which the slavery system survived, persons of African descent escaping their masters applied different tactics to argue for racial equality in the hopes of liberation for ...

America was beginning to become a powerful and vital nation in the world in the twentieth century. Power was based on the assumption that Americans felt the abundant life, which was a promise to the world along with the concept and experience of freedom. However, freedom was not experienced by everyone at home in America. Black people felt oppressed and marginalized all the days of their life. In the 1920s, America was beginning to grab attention in the international scene. Europe was fading, while America was appearing as a dominant nation. However, this is not because of the popularity ...

People often juxtapose their world to the world of nature. More and more often modern people, in contrast to those living in ancient times, express an opinion that they are masters on the earth and, therefore, have a right to exercise dominion over animals, plants, and nature on the whole. However, in most cases, people are just slaves of circumstances and of the environment in which they happen to exist. Disgrace, a Booker-prize winning novel by J.M. Coetzee (1999), is all about that coexistence of the two worlds – the world of nature and the world of people who want ...

American Public University

Poverty is defined as lack of access to the resources necessary for survival due to low level of income earnings in a household. The different countries have different thresholds for defining the poverty. UNDP accepts people who earn less than 1 dollar a day as the poverty threshold and the Millennium Goals of the United Nations aim at reducing the number of people earning less than 1 dollar a day (UNDP, 2017). Recently, sustainable economic development is discussed among the academicians and the professionals. Fast economic growth has been the main aim of many emerging economies in the last ...

Introduction

The United States of America represents one of the most democratic nations in the world based on the history of the country. Americans have advocated for democracy through a number of movements that aimed at uniting or disintegrating Americans based on their agenda and goals. One of the issues that affected U.S. in the past and continues to portray its significance today is the discrimination against race, ethnicity, and color. White people felt as if they owned the country and looked for strategies to get rid of blacks through denying them some basic needs and using violence means to ...

Approaching the end of a decade of reckoning, 1968 was a tumultuous year in so many ways, none more so than being the year Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated on April 4th. The leader of a Civil Rights Movement that confronted main stream society and its blatant racist accepted behavior, he had given a speech the night before that referenced black people getting to the promised land (Race Riots, 4:14). The next evening the ‘face’ and savior of the Civil Rights Movement was shot and killed. As the news hit the nation riots broke out in over 100 ...

Introduction

During the period 1877-1920, the United States underwent a period known as Reconstruction. Well, life for African Americans was not at all easy during this period. In as much as the recently freed African Americans did enjoy political and social equality, the South was regained by the self-proclaimed Democratic redeemers. As a result, Jim Crow racial segregation was instituted which led masses to move, known as the Great Migration. Much did change with regard to the life of African Americans, which begs for the question as to why they faced these challenges during this period of time.

Event 1-Racial Segregation

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After a read of Belinda Sutton’s 1783 Petition and the 1791 letter dubbed To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Banneker, it is impossible to overlook the authors’ shared perception of men and women of color deserving more than what the Caucasians gave them at the time. Sutton believed that after her years of captivity as the human chattel of one Isaac Royall, she should have a “morsel of [the] immense wealth” her servitude under bondage had given the master (1783, par.5). Similarly, in a wider perspective of the racist ideologies that fueled the slavery system, Banneker insisted that his ...

This worksheet will help you prepare for your final project by organizing the information that you’ll need for your final paper and walking you through the process of defining your topic, researching and analyzing primary and secondary sources, crafting a thesis, and creating an annotated bibliography. Once you have completed the worksheet submit it to the online classroom for grading. After your instructor has graded the worksheet, please be sure to use it and the feedback provided to you by your instructor as you construct your final project.1. Statement of Topic:

African Americans This is the topic Native ...

While previously the holistic development and wellbeing of the population of the United States of America has been thwarted by the social ill of racism, the modern era sees a different kind of problem that might be surmised to have found its root in the long dark history of racial discrimination in the country’s milieu. Legal steps and general awareness have ensured that racism is not practiced or advocated in the country in any manner. Nonetheless, the series of events where people of the black community have repeatedly come to be on the receiving end of undue violence ...

Europe’s history, especially in the colonial and imperial periods created new connections and networks between parts of the world. European expansion starting the in the sixteenth century led to its expansion into the Americas and the concurrent creation of the slave trade of entirely new populations in the imperial periphery. Additionally, in the nineteenth century with the so-called “Scramble for Africa” meant that Europe had new colonies on the continent itself. With the process of decolonization this meant that these populations both from the Americas especially the Caribbean could migrate into the European metropole. This created an African ...

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For centuries humans have looked for a higher power to worship. The question is: Why are there so many religions? Are those religions similar somehow? Even though, religions have some aspects in common – there is a higher power, they believe in a creationist theory, they all have a printed version of their beliefs, they act by faith, among others. The reality of living in a multicultural world influences what people believe and how they manifest it. Societies have shaped their religions in accordance to what their ancestors believed and what they have experienced in their own reality. One cannot ...

The point of peer reviews is to work together to locate what these papers are trying to say and then give informed, respectful suggestions to help the writer say it more clearly. Use these questions to help guide the discussion, but please be brief in answering them. The primary purpose of your peer review is to have a discussion. 1.) What is the thesis claim or question? Is this argument claim arguable (as in, could someone disagree with it)? Is the case claim interesting (in other words, does the thesis claim challenge or shed new light on the “ ...

Book Review

Introduction Black Like me is a unique nonfictional book that has the author as the main character. Motivated by the socio-political dynamics John Howard Griffin take a bold but unusual step. He sets out to explore the experience of the Black people, but he could not just find it in books. The central themes to be dealt with in this review include racial profiling by the judicial system and the baseless segregation of the blacks. John frustration takes him to Mansfield in Texas. Black like me is Griffin’s own story while coexisting with the black community. The book ...

Introduction

The African diaspora has resulted in a wave of “migration” of Africans from the African continent to other parts of the world. The main reason for this is the slave dispersal that moved Africans from Africa to America, the Middle East and even to the Far East. The dispersal that took place is thought to be one of the greatest forced migrations in the history of humankind (Britannia Academic: Slavery). There is always the ideology that all Africans, no matter where they find themselves around the world, are bound together by their traditional cultures and diasporic experiences. This paper ...

The 1960s was a vital period for civil rights movements in the USA. For black people it was perfect time for promoting equality and non-discrimination. There were many civil rights groups and leaders that had different opinions about how to deal with injustice that had dominated in the USA for many centuries. Martin Luther King was one of the most prominent civil activists, but there were many other influential people, including Malcolm Little. Both activists were assassinated in the 1960s. One may get familiar with some of their ideas by reading their speeches “The Ballot or the Bullet” (1964) ...

Paul Fryes discusses how the American politicians ignore the problems of the Black people as one of the largest disadvantaged groups in the world and how the Black people cannot create a response to the ignorant politicians by developing a political strategy as a group of all Black voters. As known, political parties give attention to the groups providing a financial contribution to their campaigns, the size of voters in the group, and loyalty of voters in the group. The main aim is to collect the highest possible financial support and collect most of the votes for politicians. The ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar was one of the first influential poets in the movement that would become the Harlem Renaissance. Older than some of his peers within that group, he published his first poems in 1889, in the Dayton Herald, also serving as class president and class poet despite being the only black student in his grade level. He initially wanted to become an attorney, but his mother did not have enough money to send him off to university, so he started looking for work in his downtown, Dayton, Ohio, but found that there were few openings for black applicants. ...

Charles Wilkinson and his famous book “Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations” provide a brilliant description of the life of American Indians and how Indian tribes' could lose their sovereignty in the 1950s that was the turning point in the history of Indian nations. The author of the book characterizes Indians as passive victims of dark pages of their history. In fact, the author provides the description of separate stories which prove how American Indians became the active creators of their own history and moved from dispossession and darkness to well being and flourishing. Wilkinson accurately demonstrates ...

This paper will present an analysis of Martin Luther King’s “I have a Dream speech.” The analysis will focus on the five key elements of the five elements of dramatistic pentad. These are act, agency, agent, scene, and purpose.

Act:

The “I have a dream” speech was a speech that sought to fight for civil rights liberties and freedoms for oppressed Americans. Black Americans had suffered discrimination for centuries in the country. The speech began with a history of the suffering of the black people in America. It also gave an excellent portrayal of the struggles the black people ...

With the recent passing of boxing legend Muhammad Ali, I began to see many things about the man that were incredibly inspirational to me. Aside from his amazing physical capacity to be one of the greatest fighter the world has ever seen, there was his strength of character and perseverance that makes him my hero. At a time in America when black people were still fighting for equality and justice, Muhammad Ali never backed down on the principles that he led his life by. When it came time to be drafted for the Vietnam War, he was willing to ...

Mass Media before 1940: The Rosewood Massacre of 1923

American journalism can trace its humble beginnings back in the 1800s as it was initially used as a vehicle for political campaign in gaining the American independence. Journalists were guaranteed freedom of the press and freedom of speech, which helped in advancing the role of the American press in society and the political scene. The American press became a major support element to various political parties in the country, including other organizations and groups such as the religious institutions. American journalism experienced what could be called technological advancements during the 1840s as the telegraph and other fast printing presses ...

Abstract

The process that led to the formation of the United States is more of a salad bowl than a melting pot; ethnic communities were not softly absorbed to the umbrella of American culture, but they rather coexisted in their individual identities, like ingredients of salad on a plate. The struggle of the African American is pinned on his slavery and the fact that he was sold to America for labor. It has been very hard for the African American to get assimilated, and the situation is still dire today, as racism is still rife. The underrepresentation in the Congress ...

Police brutality has sparked up a lot of tension and chaos in the recent past. This form of brutality refers to any unnecessary excessive force applied to victims by the police (Bird and Smith, 93). Members of the black community are often the victims of this brutality. Young black males have been killed in cold blood by the police who claim that the former are armed and are a threat to their lives. What has sparked a lot of anger is the fact that some of the slain men are usually unarmed is and a non-threat to the police. ...

Slavery was a controversial issue for the Founding Fathers of the USA. For the sake of building an independent country, they preferred to ignore the problems of inequality and injustice that slavery brought into the American society. Moreover, the majority of the Founders owned slaves themselves. There were only 7 Founding Fathers that were not slave owners: Roger Sherman, Thomas Paine, Robert Treat Paine, Alexander Hamilton, Oliver Ellsworth, Samuel Adams and John Adams (Laccarino). They came from Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York or Pennsylvania and had to take into account conservative attitudes of the other Founding Fathers some of whom ...

“I Got No Quarrel with The VietcongNo Vietcong Ever Called Me Nigger.” Sometimes words resonate through time. We hear them and immediately comprehend their importance; even if some don’t comprehend their value at that time. Muhammad Ali will chiefly be remembered as a charismatic and fearless boxing champion. Some, however, will also remember him as an advocate of social justice, speaking out against war, discrimination against African Americans, and support for peace and Islam. Whether as a prominent member of the sporting community or a fierce advocate for social change, Muhammad Ali will regardless be considered an influential ...

Introduction to Public Relations

The Subway yoga mat social media campaign was informed by the leak that the company was still using a chemical component used in the production of rubber and yoga mats in the preservation of food. The large corporation did not apply universal standard when deciding on the regions that would use the component. Even though the chemical has been approved by the food and drug agency in America, other parts of the world have restricted its use even in the non-food industries. Therefore, from the perspective of the company’ and the management, the use of the component in the ...

“Othering” and Minority Issues

In the discussion, “othering” refers to the connection people have with each other as opposed to the ones that are not like them. In other words, the person or persons are regarded as part of a “historical generation,” distinguishing themselves from others who are not a part of that generation. According to Diana George and John Trimbur (43), there is a bond between those who have created a common bond, common experiences, and a common history. Even within this context, there is a difference in the way generations view the goals and aspirations of previous generations. ...

Sarafina the movie

It is true, we should treat everyone as an equal, when we demand respect for ourselves. Speaking of “Sarafina” the movie, we see problems of black people in the USA in the 1980s. The main character is a schoolgirl Sarafina who dreams of becoming a star, but realizes, she cannot achieve this, without being free. We observe a racy nation, loving and supporting each other, suffering from injustice. Their dances are original and sometimes wild. Their songs combine sadness and energy, hope and love. Their language is unique; and the people are not ashamed of it (McKinney). The nation ...

In 1960, a group of students called the “Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee” (SNCC) began to organize sit-ins with black students who would walk into restaurants throughout the south and sit in places designated for “whites only.” This stirred up a debate between Malcolm X and James Baldwin, who both played a prominent role in the history of the fight against the nation’s racial inequality that led to the Civil Rights Movement. Each of the men had some interesting, valid, and unique perspectives on their thoughts about the sit-ins that were occurring across the south that resulted in the ...

In a debate about student sit-ins during the Civil Rights Movement, Malcolm X argues that the passive approach of waiting for the white man to grant black people an opportunity for integration is useless. His attitude about integration is that it minimizes the reality of what black people in America truly needed, which was freedom, justice, and equality. Integration would not suffice to what is properly owed to the black citizens to become equal to the white citizens of America. Waiting for the white man to grant these rights to black people keeps the black people in a subordinate ...

The representation of Black race in music video “U.N.I.T.Y.” by Queen Latifah The music video “U.N.I.T.Y.” by Queen Latifah from 1993, which I have chosen for the demonstration of Black identity, illustrates how Black women describe their position in relationships with Black men and the whole society. The song lyrics is provocative with using the filthy language, which perfectly reflects the common attitude of Black race; it demonstrates that people are free from the society frameworks. Queen Latifah represents herself as a strong independent woman. She raps about losing respect for women within Black community; that point is significant ...

Martin Luther King Jr.’s historical speech “I Have a Dream” has been a pivotal moment in history for black America. As a leader of the Civil Rights movement, MLK had a great vision of justice and equality for black men, women, and children that had not been honored by white America. Despite the signing of the Proclamation of Emancipation a hundred years prior to MLK’s speech, black people still lived segregated and in oppression. It was MLK’s brave and courageous stance that empowered black people throughout America to begin the non-violent fight for what should have ...

Racial in our crime and punishment system had been a huge concern for many years. The crime and punishment system are geared toward racism. There are reasons that the existence of racism is a concern for punishment and crime. In the United States, there are more black people incarcerated in the prison system than there are white people. It is a proven fact that the legal action against drugs is focused merely on African American individuals. This is due to the policy that concerns the drug war, epidemic in the country. The policy states that it is better to ...

Black power emerged as a result of the efforts made by African Americans in the 1950s and 1960s in the clamor for equal representation and opportunities in all the spheres of the public American life. The concept led to the rise of the black power movements across the United States of America. Chief among the black power movements is the civil rights movement led by Dr. Martin Luther King. King focused on accomplishing the mission of achieving equal rights for African American so that they could participate in the social, economic and political affairs without discrimination (Joseph 90). With ...

Rosa Parks – the Rebellion

What would you do if someone told you that you are not good enough because of the color of your skin? Would you be upset and humble or chose another way and would fight for your rights and place in our wonderful world? I would rather choose the second direction, because according to the history, there are powerful people who can change their life in the best possible way. My inspirational person who made an outstanding contribution to history is Rosa Parks. She became an icon for great changes in the black community. As for me, this woman is ...

There were a number of cases brought before the Supreme Court of the United States in relation to racial discrimination. In Brown vs. Board of Education, the Supreme Court in the United States declared that it was unconstitutional to continue practicing state laws which separated public schools for Black and White students. The decision ruled that such state laws were a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. On the contrary, Plessy vs. Ferguson the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the state laws that supported racial segregation, especially in public facilities. These laws became practical ...

Alex Kotlowitz follows the lives of two young boys, Lafeyette Rivers and Pharaoh Rivers, in their Chicago neighborhood, living in the Henry Horner Project, a housing scheme for underclass black people. The boys grow up in a rough neighborhood, where the only option is to join a gang once they enter adolescence. Their mother is 35 years old, and she had eight children, among whom, one is serving a jail term and the second born, an eighteen-year-old, has been arrested for a record forty-six times, making him a strong candidate to serving jail terms like his elder brother. When ...

Thesis

Racism is still a very big problem in the world and America in particular. The gains of the civil rights of the 1960's have been washed away, partly, by the rise of the ‘political correctness' era that designed things to be said in a certain way, and, a pluralistic ignorance that came out as an offshoot of political correctness, where, people speak about racism in acceptable terms while believing in the opposite to avoid appearing insensitive and racist. Just as racism was rampant in America in 1930’s as brought out in the novel To Kill a Mocking Bird, ...

What is the reason why social movements appear? The term “social movement” implies the creation of large groups of people that share common views on various social and political issues and act to defend their views and to cause a social change. The worldwide peak of social movements was seen in the 1960s, but even after its passing, the idea of social movements continued to be challenging for society. Della Porta writes, “The excitement and optimism of the roaring 1960s may be long gone, but social and political events . . . have hardly rendered the investigation of grassroots activism any less ...

‘Whitey on the Moon’ by Gil Scott talks about the poverty of the Blacks in a society that only looks out for the White people. He explains how his taxes are deducted from his paycheck leaving him penniless and they are used for expensive trips to the moon by the white people. Therefore, the poet speaks of wealth disparity and lack of opportunity. The song is based on the disparity as a result of social stratification in a society that favors the White people over the Black people. The society is blamed for the inequality against the Blacks by ...

A time to kill is an American drama film produced in 1996 by Arnon Milchan, John Grisham, Michael Nathanson and Hunt Lowry (Ebert 1).it depicts how racial discrimination affected social life in America. It is based on the novel ‘A time to Kill’, written by John Grisham in 1989. The film revolves around a black family, father and daughter who are living in Mississippi, and two white men who are racists. Tonya the black young girl is aged ten years. She was seized by Doug Hutchinson and Nicky Katt who raped her in turns. The men also beat ...

Article Summary

First, Perry explores what is noted as "the visual image of black women in hip-hop [over the last 20 years and] how this has rapidly deteriorated" (p.296). It seems as though at the turn of the 20th century, hip-hop started down a path that it has not been able to proverbially recover from. This is due in part to the fact that misogynist perspectives have been on the rise for a number of years, and the genre has only served to highlight the disturbing dynamics associated with this conception. Perry notes that "this use of black women in the ...

The relationship between traditional organizational structures of policing agencies:

According to Gaines & Worrall (2012), all police organizations regardless of their size or location have a social structure. The social structure of a police organization is composed of the relationships between the members of the organization. Social structures play important roles in the organization. They form the basis for division of work among the members of the police force (Gaines & Worrall, 2012). They also serve other functions such as the way to socialize new members of the force into the police force. Traditionally, the social structure of police forces focuses on three dimensions. These are vertical, functional, and geographic ( ...

“The storm” by kate chopin

The character of Calixta is the protagonist or main character of the story although she appears to be visible only in a few of the pages in the novel. However, the main bulk of her character comes from her personal point of view about love and life. I have chosen the character of Calixta because of her mysterious character that was slowly revealed until the end of the story. Calixta’s character is interesting because there more to her than what meets the eye. In the beginning, the audience perceives Calixta’s character to be ordinary in the sense ...

Civil Rights and Government Responsibility

The most memorable event of an expansion of civil rights liberties is the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that realigned race relations between the whites and African-Americans. The gains of the Act in the last fifty years cannot be underestimated, as it opened the social space on which black people could utilize to better their lives and make their impact in the growth of America (Fairclough, 2003). State Governments, especially the ones from the South that were very conservative The Act legalized affirmative action that gave black people equal rights to employment with the whites. Through this move, many ...

Irene Lou in Passing by Nella Larsen (1929) Irene is the protagonist in the novel, Passing, by Nella Larsen that was written in 1929. The novel has three sections and Irene features all through, with her childhood friend, Clare. Clare is married to Jack, who does not know that she is black because is too light-skinned, just like Irene (Larsen and Kaplan).The light-skinned black ladies pass for whites, and Irene is critical of Clare's efforts to be white. At some point, she breaks off all communication with her, including tearing Clare's letters without reading them when she learned ...

Identity has become an unavoidable part of people’s lives. Our identities have become our vectors and are defined by what we do and the reasons behind the acts. As much as people may want to believe that their identity is irrelevant, in reality, they often affect the way other people perceive them. There are many aspects of one’s identity. Therefore, every action that a person takes can have different meanings and implications to different people and thus people have become concerned about shaping their identities. Shaping and defending our identities has become more real to us than ...

This paper describes the social movements that Blacks participated in during the period from 1900 to date. It tackles the ways in which the movements can be described as one long civil rights movement, and also how were they distinct movements. The paper further assesses their goals and the manner in which they have effected change in the United States. The paper also points out prominent civil rights activists that played an important role in spearheading the civil rights movements. Most of the black social movements from 1900 to date have basically been fighting against racism. The 20th Century ...

Immigration to England

Migration is defined as the moving of persons from one place to another. The move may be temporary or permanent, depending on the reasons involved. Migration may occur due to various reasons such as economic ones like employment and job opportunities, social ones like being closer to family members or loved ones, environmental factors like natural disasters, and political ones like wanting to escape a conflict or strife within a home country. One of the great examples of migration is the moving of Jamaicans to England. There are many reasons why Jamaicans moved to England. Jamaicans moved to England ...

The Beatles is a band which is famous all over the world. Their songs have been favorite songs for many generations now. It seems that their songs never get old. People love them and understand them. However, “Blackbird” can be seen as one of the most interesting songs and songs that have a very deep meaning to it. The name of the song itself speaks quite loud and direct about the meaning in it. According to the source: “McCartney explained that "bird" is British slang for girl, making "blackbird" a synonym for 'black girl'” (Reddit Web). The name of ...

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In his speech to the NAACP, President Barrack Obama talked of the injustices in the criminal justice system including, racial profiling, incarcerating petty offenders for long periods of time and different sentences are given according to color. He also mentioned the stringent laws that lead to the failure of the justice system in helping convicts to reintegrate into the society (President Obama Addresses The NAACP's 106Th National Convention). Obama stated that there has been news of police racially profiling people during arrests, with people of color being targeted. He also said that the jailing of petty offenders is costly ...

Composed by Kate Chopin a short story Désirée’s Baby presents passage from life of a girl without a name who finds her love and her bitter end. Désirée was found by Valmondé a wealthy and aristocratic family from the antebellum South who adopts her despite that fact that Monsieur and Madame Valmondé do not know girl`s origin. She is loved and admired not only by her new parents but also by Armand Aubigny a representative of another influential and wealthy Creole family in Louisiana. It seems that Désirée is surrounded by ...

African-American culture had a significant impact on the formation of the cultural identity of the United States. Important role in the formation of the main aspects of African American culture played a religious representation of African Americans which began in the period of slavery in the United States. Today interracial relationships are treated not as a confrontation, but the interaction that should enrich the American culture. African-American culture itself is considered as a developing, unique and at the same time organically fit into the US culture. Spiritual culture of the Black people is the result of a complex development, ...

There are many significant points throughout history that many regard as pivotal, the Renaissance, the Age of Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution are some. For Americans it is often the founding of the first colonies in the east and the fight for independence in the 1700s, however, the most significant event for many Americans today is the American Civil War, beginning in 1861 and ending in 1865. For the two sides of the War, the Union North and the Confederate South, the goals were rather different. For the Union army it was about quelling rebellion and preventing the succession ...