Tag Archives : African Americans

Many people have agreed that racial ideology has caused the impoverishment of great numbers of people at tremendous cost, as well as the decline of their quality of life. When the matter of race is defined, applied, and institutionalized in everyday life, racial ideology happens. At this point, the matter of race becomes a scientific, religious, and [...]

In 1954, the Supreme Court handed down a unanimous decision in Brown vs Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas, ruling that segregation of schools was unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment. This bolstered the cause of integration. In the same year, however, one powerful U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd, Sr. and his equally influential political organization [...]

Both the “New Negro” movement in the 1920s and the Civil Rights Movement fought against racial discrimination and worked towards equality for African-Americans in the USA. Their basic difference lies in the form of protest that each employed. The “New Negro” movement was envisioned and designed to be the new spirit of militancy. Right from [...]

The fight against discrimination in the United States has always been a bumpy ride. In spite of the civil rights movement, discrimination against African-Americans is still palpable to this day. Not even with the installation of an African-American president in the White House is discrimination assured to be on the wane. The American Civil Rights Movement [...]

The popular image of the US capital is that of a monumental and historic city, the bastion of US democracy, and a place of law and order. Behind the scenes in urban Washington, however, District of Columbia offers a little less pleasant scenario. The seat of the federal government, with a population of approximately 600,000 people of which 55 percent [...]

When Sean Delonas got his cartoon published in the New York Times, he had no idea of the controversy he would generate. The picture depicting a policeman shooting a chimpanzee has been described as a racist reference to the half-black US president Obama and that it is a reference to the stimulus bill. Now, the author himself rejected the idea that it [...]