Essays on Political Activists

Uprising: Hip Hop and the L. A. Riots is a documentary that was produced in 2012 and it shows how hip hop foretold, some say it fanned the flames of the most terrible civil unrest recorded in America in the 20th century. The documentary is...

The song April 29, 1992 (Miami) by the band Sublime describes social and racial inequalities. The song begins with a police officer reporting damage to a vehicle over his radio. Following this the song begins describing the scene during the Los Angeles riots during the...

Rodney King was an African-American male born in Sacramento, California on April 2nd, 1965. In Los Angeles (on March 3rd, 1991), Rodney King was pulled over by LAPD, forcibly removed from the vehicle he was in, and savagely beaten by four LAPD officers; Laurence Powell,...

The Rodney King case was so influential in American society because it was supposed to be straightforward. It was the first time there was video evidence of police brutality and it was incredibly difficult to watch. It should have been enough to convict any of...

Born in St Ann’s Bay, Jamaica in 1887, Marcus Garvey grew to be the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement and Conservation Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) after travelling many times and seeing first-hand how “Negroes lived, politically and otherwise”. Garvey led one of,...

Black Nationalism is defined as a type of ‘group of militant blacks who advocate separatism from the whites and the formation of self-governing black communities.’ In the tradition of radicalism, Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey advocates for political and social reform for descendants of the...

Rupert Lewis was born February 24th, 1947 in Jamaica. He is a renowned author and Professor Emeritus of Political Thought at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica. He is a proud public educator on the work of Marcus Garvey and the Garvey...

Garveyism was a movement way ahead of its time. Jamaican born, Marcus Garvey was responsible for the American Black Nationalist and Pan Africanism Movement in the 1920s. Garvey’s mother Sarah Jane Richardson was a great influencer in Garvey’s young life, she wanted more for him...

Introduction Every generation is granted its share of leaders; those empowered to empower others and motivated to establish a better world for generations to come. Marcus Garvey was one of those people. He was an activist, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator of unity amongst black people....

The biography of Marcus Garvey by Rupert Lewis, gives account of his humble origins and the influences and developments which transported him from the state of a young unworldly schoolboy in colonial Jamaica to an international icon in the movement for black empowerment. Rupert Lewis...

Marcus Mosiah Garvey Junior was an exceptional writer, advocate for black rights and political activist during his time on earth. Most of his noteworthy actions were captured by that of Rupert Lewis, a retired professor and former teacher of political thought at the University of...

Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. born on the 17th of August in 1887 was born to a tolerably prosperous Afro-Jamaican family in Saint Ann’s Bay, Colony of Jamaica and apprenticed into the print exchange as a young person. Garvey was a Jamaican political dissident, distributor, speaker,...

Intro In 1991 Rodney King was in a high speed chase with the police and when pulled over he was brutally beaten by four white officers, the four officers were acquitted of all charges. The acquittal of the officers led to the 1992 riots in...

Rodney King was an African-American male born in Sacramento, California on April 2nd, 1965. In Los Angeles (on March 3rd, 1991), Rodney King was pulled over by LAPD, forcibly removed from the vehicle he was in, and savagely beaten by four LAPD officers; Laurence Powell,...

Life generally, never works out the way we want it. Throughout our lives we are in a constant battle with the world and our surroundings. It is up to the person as an individual to decide what they want for themselves. In the novel I...

Peace What is Peace? Peace is the generalization of freedom; the freedom from war, violence and disturbance. The act of escaping is defined by peace and there are many different views and aspects. Peace is a factor of the world that civilians have wanted for...

The Face of a Fight The fact that Malala Yousafzai was chosen for the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize shows just how much weight the world is starting to put on education, children’s rights, and women’s rights. It’s not far fetched to think that part of...

He Named Me Malala He Named Me Malala is an inspirational piece of literature/documentary that shares the story of a young Pakistani, teenage girl named Malala. When Malala was younger, her father would tell her this story about the girl who saved her country by...

On being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Malala Yousafzai commences her speech by thanking people around the world who supported her and encouraged her to carry on her battle against terrorism and by recognizing the efforts of her doctors and her supporters in helping her...