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HUMAN RIGHTS
No other leaders in the United States have more involved in making this country a democracy for all than black civil rights leaders. They have been at the forefront of voting rights, civil rights, fair housing, and anti-discrimination legislation. They have gone to the eye of the storm and challenged racial hatred and violence. They have changed the old value system, which devalued differences , into one that appreciates the rich diversity of its people. Finally, they have opened the doors of government to provide full participation of all citizens.
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George Floyd Tragedy
“The Cost Of Liberty Is Less Than The Price Of Repression.” W.E.B. Du Bois “I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those that do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and...
Mandela
By Elizabeth Singleton Under the newly-formed government of President Nelson Mandela, South Africa is shaping a new landscape of democracy for its future. With new voices now resounding in Pretoria's Parliament, many old issues and new concerns will finally be...
The Age of Enlightenment’s influence on the American Constitution
by Lucien Smith Newton's modern and scientific appeal to reason not only shatter old notions of science but broaden the scope of study in many other fields as well. It uses reason, the scientific approach of measuring what one could see empirically to find the truth...
Politics of Victimization
THE MEDIA & THE BLACK COMMUNITY BY C.Stone Brown Malcolm X once said that the mass media are able to make the victim appear to be the perpetrator and the perpetrator the victim. Malcolm X may have been one of the first black political scientist to observe this...
KING X
MARTIN and MALCOLM: "Two Legacies, One Movement" Elizabeth A. Singleton Introduction Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, both historical icons dominating the Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s, made profound psychological, political, economic and spiritual impacts...
REEBOK’S HUMAN RIGHTS
The South Shore Minority Business Circle by Mary Glolias In 1989 a group of successful minority business people created the South Shore Minority Business Circle "to provide a voice and network for minority owned firms", said Jackie Roundtree, President of The South...