"World Church of the Creator" A shotgun and a bottle of Whiskey in hand, dressed in a white robe. This is how I have always imagined racist hate groups all of my life. A bunch of skinhead white guys getting together to burn some crosses and hang some minorities. Yes, even non-racists ...

During the Harlem Renaissance a new feeling of racial pride emerged in the Black Intelligential. The Black Intelligential consisted of African-American writers, poets, philosophers, historians, and artists whose expertise conveyed five central themes according to Sterling Brown, a writer of that tim...

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. ...

In Todd Clifton's funeral speech, IM attempts to liberate himself through the use of rhetorical language. He breaks free of the Brotherhood's "blueprints" by speaking with no set framework, going against the brotherhoods belief in social vs. racial equality by implying Todd was a...

Fighting on Two Fronts: African Americans and the Vietnam War, begins by briefly looking at how previous wars such as the American Revolution, WWI, WWII, and the Korean War dealt with race relations in comparison to the Vietnam War. Earlier wars had a segregated system that limited the contact betw...

The Black Panther Party was founded as an aid to the black community. They fed the hungry, protected the weak from racist police, and presented a new paradigm of black political and social activism. Its "survival programs"-such as food giveaways, free health clinics and free breakfast programs fo...