Thesis/Motivation In this exploration, the thesis statement is black lives matter is an official group and not a hate group. According to Chimurenga, racism affects the lives of African Americans in the United States (2). In 2016, black Americans developed the slogan “Black Lives Matter” to criticize the police brutality...

As president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (the SCLC), Martin Luther King, Jr. addresses fellow clergymen in his famous Letter from Birmingham Jail. This piece of influential writing has been acknowledged internationally as a masterpiece throughout decades. The Letter is one of the strongest examples of moral argument and...

The concept of the matrix of domination is one that requires an understanding of the things that form the matrix. The domination to which Patricia Hill Collins is referring to is the local, national, and global system of supremacy that oppresses those who do not fit into the hegemonic view...

During the 1950s and 1960s, in the United States the civil rights struggle coincided with the era when television sets became more common in homes around the country. Initially, in the early 1950s it was more of a rarity for average households to own a TV, but at the end...

The article “America’s Problem of Race: The Black and Latino Man Divided by a Common African Ancestry” by Harris focuses on the discussion of the contemporary racial issues in the United States. The author argues that there is a pertinent issue of structural racism both against African-American and Hispanic men....