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Jackson’s home Robert passed away. He was the third Jackson family member to die in America and the second Jackson casualty of the Revolutionary War. Elizabeth nursed her now only son back to health; but before Jackson was fully recovered she left for Charleston, after receiving a message the British captured…

One of Barack’s problems was racism. It is believed that if Obama wasn't president, most racial issues wouldn’t have occurred. Another problem was the shootings and the gun violence. From the Trayvon Martin shooting to the Charleston church massacre, Obama was placed in a tough spot because of the police force and African American shootings. He reassured the African American community that everything is alright. Now brilliant Donald Trump comes into office with grand ideas,…

He then moved to Norfolk where his mother raised him after his father left. Later, he moved to Charleston. His mother died in Charleston, leaving him orphaned. Rosalie suffered a violent death, which later influenced Poe’s writing. Poe witnessed “…her slightness and beauty; her illness and consumption; her pallor and wasting; her blood-spittings and finally her cold…

This article was in response to the Charleston church shooting that happened in June of this year. Dylan Roof entered the church and joined African Americans in a group study for an amount of time before shooting and killing nine of them. As of July, it was unsure whether Roof would be charged…

have faced college admission as universities in Virginia State have adopted the top ten percent rule that only guarantees students who graduated in the top ten percentile from their high schools to get an automatic admission to public universities (Charleston 2). This law serves as a transition from a race- based policy that had been in use known as the affirmative action. This rule has shown to benefit the minority in the American states. The supporters of this law argue that it ensures…

Hate crimes occur all over the United States all the time, and whether it be because of race, sexual preference, or religion, they always make an impact on society. For example, on September 15, 1963, four members of the Ku Klux Klan violently stated their racist beliefs against African Americans in the Birmingham Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama (“Birmingham Church Bombing”). As stated in a 2013 Newscurrents article, “The bombing took place because the church was a center of civil rights…

The Black lives matter event was a life altering experience that opened my eyes to current day discrimination in the United States. During this program, we got the opportunity to meet three individuals who are activist in their own rights and fighting for justice and equality. These individuals included Opal Tometi, one of the founders of the black lives matter organization, Andrea Densky, a brave woman of color who climbed a flagpole outside the South Carolina Statehouse and removed the…

There is a lot of Ideological extremism in America still to this day. In the United States, most terrorist environments easily fall into the left-right ideological field. You do not find as strong an ideological demarcation in other countries. Only groups with a strong international character defy ready ideological organization. Black power is often sectioned with the new left. Black power is promoting interest of one group of people. The American right is strong on family values. They are…

Years later another freed slave insurrectionist named Denmark Vesey who bought his own freedom started to plot for a revolution. Around 9,000 slaves and free blacks escorted him in his collude which was arranged to take place on July 14, 1822 in Charleston. The plot never accomplished its goals as Vesey and his fellow mutineers were snitched on and thus hanged (Hazen 11). This attempt assured to the southerners slave…

song we shall overcome is a protest song that became a key anthem of the civil right Movement. Which derives from a gospel song, possibly a 1903 song by Rev. Charles Tindley of Philadelphia containing the repeated line "I'll overcome some day", In Charleston, South Carolina in 1946, striking employees the American Tobacco Company, mostly African American women were singing hymns on the picket line. A woman named Lucille Simmons sang a slow "long meter style" version of the song, as "We'll…