The Emergence of Black Feminist Consciousness - The Black woman confronts two basic and enormous struggles on account of her skin color: white supremacy and male superiority. These preset conditions she is born into, lives through and vastly endeavors to shape and interpret a consciousness...

A recent article in Dollars & Sense magazine called "Labor and Democracy in South Africa: Where to Now?" Franco Barchiesi and Thad Williamson explore the current economic position of South Africa. The article takes a close look at the life of working-class black Africans and how the existing polit...

Teenage Pregnancy Today, teenagers experience sexuality and respond to what their feelings are in often an irresponsible way. In their hearts and minds they often times feel that they're in love, when it is usually infatuation. Young men and women are struggling with the many different ur...

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. ...

Apartheid- defined as the South African term for 'apartness' and a political platform combined of anti-communism ideals and racial segregation. Although the Apartheid laws were abolished, racial conflicts are still present and occurrent in South African society with racial equality still ...

Essay On Racism Racism is one of the world's major issues today. Many people are not aware of how much racism still exists in our schools workforces, and anywhere else where social lives are occurring. It is obvious that racism is bad as it was many decades a...

Da Bluez From years 1505 to 1870, the world underwent the largest forced migration in history. West Africa was soon to be convulsed by the arrival of Europeans and become the advent of the transatlantic slave trade. Ships from Europe, bound for America, appeared on the horizon, and their captains...

The 1950s lasted far longer than a numerical decade. The Fifty's started in October 1947 when Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier, escorting in a time of rapid progress. The accent of the era was on convenience and speed-a time when abundant steps were taken to free the housewife from the dr...

African American women are exceptional human beings. Like other women, they are burdened with the problems of being a female in a male-dominated society that does not fully value the feminine perspective. 0Unlike other women, they are also faced with issues resulting from long-standing negative, ste...

In the 1940's, Malcolm Little (also known as Malcolm X) stood up against racism towards all Black people. This courageous act becomes even more courageous when it is considered that he was following in his Fathers footsteps, even though his father was murdered because of his philosophies abo...

Booker T. Washington's body of work, study, and his life as a whole, as most notably encompassed within the text his own autobiography, entitled, Up From Slavery, is often set against the live of W.E.B. Du Bois. As noted by the scholar Louis T. Harlan, conventional wisdom holds that Booke...

Malcolm X is most widely known as a civil rights activist. He was a leader of black people in America who is now generally known as being an anti-white activist. Many of his speaking years were spent preaching the teachings of Elijah Muhammad who proclaims that black people are righteous and whit...

Malcolm X Malcolm X is considered one of the greatest civil rights activists in history. He was known for his somewhat violent message of blacks defending themselves. Despite his original message, he eventually became more peaceful toward whites. However, as his legacy was just beginning to c...

The foundation for black participation in the Civil War began more than a hundred years before the outbreak of the war. Blacks in America had been in bondage since early colonial times. In 1776, when Jefferson proclaimed mankind's inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of ha...

The civil rights movement in the United States of America from 1954 to 1968 is an important element of the nation's contemporary history. The event was a turning point in the history of Black Americans as their courage and persistence displayed led to the legislative reform of American society...

Part One: A Question of Perception. The words were wholly ironic: "We must pursue a strategy that prohibits one party from taking us for granted and another party from writing us off." Jesse Jackson, when addressing the Republican National Committee in 1978, said this about the ...

"When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and hamlet, from every state and city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children-black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Catholics and Protestants-will be able to join hands and sing: Free at l...

The foundation for black participation in the Civil War began more than a hundred years before the outbreak of the war. Blacks in America had been in bondage since early colonial times. In 1776, when Jefferson proclaimed mankind's inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...