Life on The Southside In the southern United States cotton has been king for a couple of centuries. In the early days of the cotton plantations there were black slaves that tilled the land planted and raised the cotton until it was ready to be harvested by them. The practice of slavery was aboli...

Bamboozled The days of blackface minstrel troupes may seem like ancient history to most Americans, but Spike Lee wants to refresh our memory. Spike Lee is onto something when he looks to the days of blackface minstrel troupes to help us understand race in today's America. With Bamboozled, Hollywoo...

In her 1928 essay, "How It Feels to be Colored Me," Zora Neale Hurston meticulously understates the hardships of being black. Among many occupations held by Hurston, she was that of an anthropologist who studied the origin, behavior, social, and cultural development of humans. Hurston w...

W.E.B. Du Bois Few men have influenced the lives of African-Americans as much as William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) Du Bois is considered more of a history-maker than a historian(Aptheker, "The Historian"). Dr. Du Bois conducted the initial research on the black experience in the United States. ...

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Another Face of Discrimination Some people argue that discrimination in schools and the work place are very much a thing of the past. This is not true. They say we are all on a level playing field and are judged by our merits only. Again, I don't think they have looked at the facts. Racial...

Destructive Enemy There is not, beneath the sky, an enemy to filial affection so destructive as slavery. (Douglass, 60) It's remarkable how one little sentence can describe the hatred and animosity that a single man has for a way of life. As a young boy in Tuckahoe, Maryland, Douglass saw ...