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Sexual Violence and Its Impact On the Black Community Sexual violence is a largely overlooked issue within the black community affecting an intolerable amount of young black girls. Black Women’s Blueprint, an organization that endorses the global equality of Black women conducted a study in which they found that “Sixty percent of black girls have experienced sexual abuse at the hands of black men before reaching the age of 18”. Black girls who experience sexual abuse choose to keep silent about…

Affirmative Action Needs To Be Put To Rest For years, men have worked hard for their wealth and power, and as a result, men like Bill Gates enter the world and conquer its riches. The thing about him, however, is that he is considered to have an advantage that everyone doesn’t have, he’s white. Because of this advantage, the push for Affirmative Action has become an uproar in our society. People fail to see that others, minorities specifically, have made a name for themselves without “special…

Immediately to “Black Theology and Black Power”, Cone writes and publishes “A Black Theology of Liberation”. There, he reflects his deep commitment to the black struggle for justice from the perspective of Christian theology, which helps African American to recognize that the gospel of Jesus is not only consistent with their struggle for liberation but has a meaning central to the twentieth century America. “Racism is a disease that perverts human sensitivity and distorts the intellect”. He…

documentary they created in celebration of Black History Month. The film explored racism in cartoons, social media, news, T.V., music, and even award shows. Not only did the documentary touch on the everyday struggles of the black community, but touched on racism of all cultures observed globally. In addition, the students highlighted in their documentary how media has skewed the facts and has- and still is- trying to convince the public that much of the black youth seen on the news are not as…

Race vs. Ethnicity. Race can be de defined as a group of persons related by common descent or hereditary. Ethnicity can be defined as an ethnic group; a social group that shares a common and distinctive culture, religion and language. Race and ethnicity have many similarities but also many differences, your race can sometimes narrow down your ethnicity and if you know what ethnicity you are, you definitely know your race. You can tell a person’s race just by their physical appearance, but…

In the novel, Invisible Man, the author, Ralph Ellison addresses the social issue of racism through the lens of an African American man. The narrator, also known as the Invisible Man, struggles with his identity as a black man in a prejudice mid-twentieth century America. Many of the events in the novel correlate with the constant struggle of racism in society. Racism has always been a major social issue, especially during the mid-twentieth century, in which the novel takes place in. Ralph…

When a black or hispanic man walks into a store its not uncommon for a store clerk to follow him through the aisles to make sure that they dont steal anything. When a black man walks down the street people in cars will lock their doors or move away from him as far as possible as he walks.In his article “Black Men and Public Space” Staples illustrates what his life was like within his first year of living in…

color is undefined and we are all black. One must not view Blackness as simply a skin color rather an Ontological Experience. The experience occurred during the middle passage in which it ceased being the African American people, but a division of humane and inhumane; with the African now deemed as the black body. In this episode of humanity an entire people were Dis-identified, Disenfranchised, and dis-embodied. “My mother bore me in the southern wild, and I am black, but O! My soul is white;…

bountiful history from which they originated. W.E.B Du Bois, in writing The Souls of Black Folk draws a powerful comparison between this categorical miseducation that was necessary to perpetuate slavery in America, and the further miseducation that was necessary to keep blacks is their lower societal positions even after the abolition of slavery. There was no social mobility, because the systems that were created to elevate black society were really…

and our role as a nation on the global stage. Only one issue, however, has led to civil war in our country– the issue of slavery. When wealthy landowners began buying and importing African Americans as slaves, they created a stark division between blacks and whites. A bloody war was fought to settle the matter, yet we still face issues of race today. Discrimination and racism have divided our nation more than any other, throughout our history, and are problems we are still attempting to solve.…