Character of Atticus/African-American Fathers Theme Essay As a parent, there is no doubt that supporting a family is difficult, and this is shown through Harper Lee's novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, and in the past years of our history. A single father raising two children, Atticus Finch is ...

But troubles abound. The government faces wide dissatisfaction with its offer of a year's average wage to those harmed by apartheid who testified before its Truth and Reconciliation Commission. And the challenges of South Africa's affirmative action policy for the black community are formidable as t...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote the "Letter From Birmingham Jail" in order to address the biggest issue in Birmingham and the United States at the time. The "Letter From Birmingham Jail" discusses the great injustices happening toward the Black community in Birmingham. In ord...

Introduction This will be a discussion about the Flagstar Corporation a.k.a Denny¡s restaurants and the journey this particular chain faced when specific issues were ignored and condoned in some opinions. There will be discussion about the company¡s history and some key issues and challen...

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...

A Raisin in the Sun A Raisin in the Sun, written by Lorraine Hansberry ,is by far one of the best books have read yet. The setting is in the mid-1900's in the Southside of Chicago. The main focus of this book occurs around a poor black family in a poor black community, the Younger's. Hansberry do...

Often times when we here of something unfolding, it has to do with the clarification or unfurling of new information regarding an investigation or legal proceeding. The unfoldment tends to have a substantial effect upon the exposure of veiled truths. The exposure of these truths creates new paths of...

There is a distinct problem with religion in this country. The churches of America have become racially divided, creating inequalities amongst our populace. Racial divisions run deep, and there is an undeniable relationship between religion and racism. Since the inception of this country, we have b...

Elements of the supernatural pervade Toni Morrison\'s novel, Beloved. These elements include evidence of African-American folklore and tradition in the everyday lives of the inhabitants of 124 Bluestone Road. Beloved\'s character is another obvious use of the supernatural: she is a ghost for part of...

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Booker Taliaferro Washington was the foremost black educator of the later 19th and early 20th centuries. He also had a major influence on the southern race relations and was the dominant figure in black public affairs from 1895 until his death in 1915. Born a slave on...

OTHELLO In his writing Shakespeare has a way of revealing his view on debatable situations, as do most writers. In Othello there are numerous examples that prove this to be true. Othello aids in getting across one of the play's most important messages that stereotypes placed on people are no...

Richard Wright wrote the book Black Boy (American Hunger) A Record of Childhood and Youth, which was banned from his homestate of Mississippi for a few years after its release. It is an autobiographical book telling about Richard's young childhood to young adulthood years. Richard was a b...

A Wounded Nation Everyday human rights are violated. These rights, established long ago by the English, are taken away by people who are either jealous, greedy, or racist against people. Human Rights are a person's basic right to life, liberty, and happiness without fear of vengeance. Sev...

The government can be defined as the control and administration of a country or state, and governments differ within each region. Typically, when one thinks of a successful government, one thinks of democracy in the United States, but few people realize that success doesn\'t come easy. Many countrie...

The Impact of Marcus Garvey Marcus Garvey, born in St. Ann, Jamaica in 1887, seemed to have been racially proud since birth. A descendant of the fiercely proud Maroons, Garvey displayed his pride and aided others in developing the same pride in fellow Africans, and also helping to "awake Ne...

The word \'community\' is used, and abused, in several ways. I would like to define the word \'community\' and later on I would define the community work, particularly my own experience of working with South Asian community for last twenty years. I would also incorporate various other theories, ac...

Government can be defined as the control and administration of a country or state, and governments differ within each region. Typically, when one thinks of a successful government, one thinks of a democracy in the United States, but few people realize that success doesn't come easy. Many count...

David Walker led a radical life characterized by devout zealousness in voicing slavery as atrocious and striving for ultimate manumission for his brethren. Walker\'s mother was free from slavery that meant David was also free. According to North Carolina law during slavery, children inherited the st...

Books help to teach lessons and share the world around the reader. Sometimes they are able to do that by creating a fantasy environment full of small morals and trivial characters. Beloved is a book that explores the reality of slavery and the horrible effects that it incurs. The story of Sethe and ...

MLK Jr., Today. In a letter from a Birmingham jail, dated April 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote, "We have waited fore more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights." He made great strides to achieving those rights for African Americans during his li...

What are the advantages and disadvantages of David Walker's approach to the topic of liberation from slavery? David Walker led a radical life characterized by devout zealousness in voicing slavery as atrocious and striving for ultimate manumission for his brethren. Walker's mother was ...

Has enough been done to stop discrimination in the United States? Through the late 1950's and early 60's there was much discrimination from the whites to other races. White people were the ones to carry discrimination too far during the 1950's and 60's. Many people such as Ma...

The Harlem Renaissance was a period for blacks to engage in life. Life, which consists of good, evil, happiness, sadness, communication and expression, was more like a prison built on a foundation of hardship, suppression and all the counter parts of the good things, the things worth living for. Bu...

After the Reconstruction period, African Americans had won freedom and no longer were seen as processions of the whiteman, although, something even more evil existed, segregation. This problem made life for many black people an ever-continuing struggle. Black people were forced to attend separ...

Painting the Picture of an Absent Father The narrators in Cofer's My Father in the Navy: A Childhood Memory and Plath's Daddy are both women who grew up without their fathers. They deal with this unfortunate predicament in two extremely different ways. Both speakers cope with their mis...