The Black Lives Matter's Fight for Human Rights in America

Even though activist Frances Wright once wrote “equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without,” Americans have failed to achieve equality for all citizens since the Civil War since racism in America is still a problem. In the Oxford Dictionary, racism is defined as [...]

It’s is highly important to acknowledge police brutality in the U.S. because it is one of many social issues causing conflict to arise within the population. Police brutality and racisms is an issues that has people drawing sides. But what we fail to realize is that many of us tend to focus on one [...]

“I have a Dream” these famous words were spoken in 1963 by one of the greatest peaceful protesters this world has ever seen, Martin Luther King Jr. Martin fought for equal rights in America but he fought not with guns and violence but with peace and witt. He managed to bring a whole nation [...]

Out of the seven billion human beings currently living on Earth, no single person is born with the right to arrogantly stand above others. Though, from the moment out of the womb, we all are the same as any other baby; red, loud, and a little ugly- some take advantage of their given material [...]

Upon reading a story in the Guardian, the long read titled; "Black Lives Matter: birth of a movement" by Wesley Lowery, one recognizes the theme of police brutality on the black people. Death of Michael Brown generated black activists' movements with an aim to protest against this cowardly act by [...]

When discussing Jim Crow and the change it has undergone since first appearing in America, it is important to define the meaning of Jim Crow and what its purpose was when it began. Jim Crow is best defined as a set of laws that appeared post-Reconstruction and lasted until 1965, affecting those [...]

The MOVE organization was a group formed for the purpose of freedom by activists who were all nature loving. The group consisted of mostly Black people in Philadelphia in the early 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s. The organization’s leader, John Africa, was silenced when the police dropped a [...]

During the time Jim Crow laws were in place, the daily lives of everyone living in the deep South were affected, whether they recognized it or not. For some, Jim Crow was part of their culture and so they did not even acknowledge its power, they just saw it as a way of life. Although some people [...]

Keywords: Rhetoric,Martin Luther King, Jr.,African American,Emancipation Proclamation,United States,Slavery in the United States,Abolitionism,African-American Civil Rights Movement,Black people,I Have a Dream On August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a public speech on the [...]