A Bowl of Salad with too Many Spices: Memories of a College Student I remember when affirmative action and my own racial identity first became important issues in my life. No doubt, affirmative action and race became constant weights on my mind as soon as I began to sort through stacks of colleg...

The idea of Affirmative Action was originally meant to correct discrimination rooted in slavery and segregation. To achieve the idea of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., to be judged on character not skin color. Sorely, it has further divided the nation's racial groups. For that, and many other reasons, ...

In American history periodic acts of violent resistance by black slaves during more than two centuries of chattel slavery signifying continual deep-rooted discontent with the condition of bondage and resulting in ever more stringent mechanisms for social control and repression in slaveholding areas....