OUR KIND OF PEOPLE Lawrence Otis Graham spent six years of his life interviewing the Black elite in cities all across America. Through this book we learn how the first elite families came about, what educations they have, what jobs they have, and what kind of social groups they are apart of. ...

LAWRENCE OTIS GRAHAM: Our Kind of PeopleI: Inside America's Black Upper Class (5 .5 pp) Through six years of interviews with more than three hundred prominent families and individuals, journalist and commentator Lawrence Otis Graham weaves together the revealing stories and fascinating experience...

LAWRENCE OTIS GRAHAM: Our Kind of PeopleI: Inside America's Black Upper Class (5 .5 pp) Through six years of interviews with more than three hundred prominent families and individuals, journalist and commentator Lawrence Otis Graham weaves together the revealing stories and fascinating experience...

To Kill a Mockingbird (1965) is a character-driven story about moral courage. Atticus Finch is an attorney in Makem, Alabama in the 1930s, called up to defend a black man accused of raping a white woman. Because he has integrity he has to truly defend the man, which goes against what most of the p...

After the Civil War had ended, several soldiers had returned home to find their places of living destroyed. Most of these people returned to practically nothing. The United States had to rebuild itself, and this rebuilding was called Reconstruction. Today historians refer to this era of recons...

The People, Leisure, and Culture of Blacks During the Harlem Renaissance It seems unfair that the pages of our history books or even the lecturers in majority of classrooms speak very little of the accomplishments of blacks. They speak very little of a period within black history in which ma...

The article, "The Negro's Civil War in Tennessee, 1861-1865" by Bobby L. Lovett, was published in "The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 61, No. 1" (Jan. 1976). In the article, Lovett writes about the contributions of black Tennesseans during the Civil War in obtaining their freedom - under some o...

The topic of this paper and the item of discussion in our sections is the question of whether the penalties for crack and powder cocaine should be the same or should they stay the way they are now. Right now possession of five hundred grams of powder cocaine has the same penalty as possession of fi...

The Black Civil Rights movement in the 1950's and 60's was a political, legal and social struggle of the black Americans to gain full citizenship rights and to achieve racial equality. The black struggle for Civil Rights was very hard. No group in America has or has had more difficulty assimilatin...

1. According to Henry Louis Gates, almost 50% of the Afro-American literary tradition was created when "it's authors and their black readers were either slaves or former slaves". 2. Slave narratives were produced for many reasons. One was to inform others of the hardships that slaves...

Boxing was introduced to the United States after many rules were implemented because many white gentlemen in the United States thought that it was not a gentlemen's sport. However, in 1888 every economic group officially recognized boxing in the United States. Even though it was officially recog...

The poem "Incident," by Countee Cullen, is one that could be described as a piece of Lyric Poetry. This is because it is a short poem that focuses in on the emotion of the poem, not the speaker or the event as much. Cullen shows how the happy feelings at the beginning of the poem change ...

Movie Review of "Bullworth" Warren Beaty makes a heroic attempt to tell people what they need to hear in the dramatic comedy, "Bullworth." As the director and star of the movie, he portrays a senator, in the midst of a suicidal breakdown, saying exactly what he thinks rather th...

The novel "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee is one which deals with important human issues. It is about the demise of a white lawyer's defence of a black man in a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy, which resulted in the black man's struggle for justice. This essay will examine th...

In "On the Road" by Langston Hughes, Sargeant faces the racial discrimination of his time, as a black man trying to find a place to say the night in a time when many people are homeless. Langston Hughes writes his story almost parallel with that of the biblical story in Judges 16. Sargea...

In the 1920's African American artists, writers, musicians, and performers were part of a great cultural movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. After World War I many African Americans migrated to the North and settled in the city of Harlem, New York. It was during this time that the Africa...

Danger Zone by David Klass is a book about racism and judging people before getting to know how they really are. A person's color or culture does not mean that a person does not belong. Jimmy Doyle and Agustus Lemay are both fifteen year old boys who have difficult lives. Although they h...

Imamu Amiri Baraka's "Dutchman" is a play rooted in symbolism. It can be traced throughout the entire play: the language, the setting, the plot, the movement, the dialogue, and even the title. Baraka does a good job intertwining both the realistic and symbolic in effort to get his theme across....

Controversy On The Beach 1 A big issue in the South today has arisen from the confederate battle flag that was used during the Civil War. Many people argue that the battle flag should fly across the southern states. In Harrison County, Mississippi there has been controversy...

Essay from my Oral Presentation: On Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "The Dimensions of a Complete Life." What kind of life can be considered complete? Different people may have different opinions. Martin Luther King, Jr., in his article "The Dimensions of a Complete Life",...

Is It Really Our HIStory? By definition, history is an account of what has happened, especially in the life of a people, country, etc., or all recorded past events. Using this definition, the American school system should recognize and teach all historical events that pertain to all ethnic groups...

No one can honestly argue that the world currently exists without racial tensions. While some people still struggle to overcome ongoing racism and stereotypes, many have stepped over racial boundaries and resolved the struggles between them. However, Benjamin DeMott argues in his article "Put...

Our youth has grown up with MTV, BET and because of the entertainment value of these entities our youth have been led astray. Some of our youth can't distinguish between reality and the entertainment that the aforementioned media giants are feeding us. The trend toward baggy pants and hair that...

FDR's Facade The 1936 election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, FDR, had proven to be a great victory for the Democrats. It was the first time that African Americans had voted Democratic rather than Republican, representing the people's confidence in Roosevelt's New Deal. Roosevelt&...

Stepped up efforts to change the educational system. In the fall of 1950 members of the Topeka, Kansas, Chapter of National Association for the Advancement of colored people agreed to again challenge the "separate but equal" doctrine governing public education. The NAACP was eager to assis...