The concept of "race" shapes American politics and society today because people are divided into groups based on their perceived race not only by the media, but by the influential and powerful people that the media talk about. One example is the comments of President Trump, and commentary on those...

That Vanport was a nice and good city to live in was depicted by its residents who were very welcoming. Additionally, this could also be deduced by considering the number of African- Americans in Vanport. Essentially, the African- American population in Vanport was almost 20 percent, which speaks volumes considering...

Brent Staples in “Black Men and Public Space,” makes the most interesting notion, created by the American society-seeing every black youth as a danger. Staples implication in the essay is that every dark-toned youth is a potential threat. He goes further to describe his young life, in which people saw...

The purpose of this paper is to identify three ways in which I note that the life experience of Frederick Douglass represents the enslaved, and one way that appears unique from other slaves. In addition to this, based on Douglass's Narrative and the Abolitionist, I discuss the reasons that encouraged...

The purpose of this paper is to give an in depth evaluation of Malcolm X's speech at Ronald Stokes funeral service in Los Angeles on 5 May, 1962, by discussing 8 important aspects. Stokes had been killed on 27 April by the Los Angeles Police Department at a local mosque...