The last image I have chosen for this quarter on LGBT rights and the right to marry for same-sex couples is a protest right outside of the Louisiana Supreme court in which a federal judge has upheld a state ban on gay marriage since the Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage prior in 2013. There are multiple signs in the image that need to be…[Read more]

Regarding to the NYTimes article for this week, featuring on the lives of undocumented immigrants, one element that steps out is how the cloud of fear and uncertainty hangs over those who have entered USA illegally. It is always how the expiration of one’s driver license or the countless alibis one’s parents have recited to the children if they…[Read more]

Illegality has become more of a weapon in recent years to criminalize and dehumanize individuals even if they are undocumented immigrants or asylum seekers. This form of weaponization leads to discrimination against those who desire to seek asylum in America, because they are ripped of their civil rights that are owed by the country’s…[Read more]

I believe it is very important to discuss the fact that due to the US’s policy of the War on Terror, the federal government basically legalized any forms of racism against a particular (albeit not by law, but the social effects indeed were very frightening.) For example, the capture or the kidnapping, and the torture of dozens of people who look…[Read more]

I personally took this picture when George Takei came to UCSD campus on April 2018 to give his famous talk/speech regarding his experiences as a Japanese American during WWII. He recalls his traumatizing memories when he and his family were incacerated by American troops from their home and community all the way to the internment camps in the…[Read more]

The image I selected for this week’s is Comedian Dave Chappelle, left, and former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, receiving W.E.B. Du Bois Medal award ceremonies at Harvard University. Both these gentlemen have fought for civil rights for their community in their own ways. Dave Chappelle praised James Baldwin when he received the award,…[Read more]

This image is taken at a soda fountain counter when Muhammad Ali beat Sonny Liston at a historical boxing match for the heavyweight championship of the world. Elijah Muhammad, the leader of the Nation of Islam along with Malcolm X were booked to speak at a featured event on promoting African American civil rights, and to give a speech of the…[Read more]

Michelle Alexander’s ‘The New Jim Crow’ illustrates how mass incarceration became a systematic form of discrimination and segregation that define the borders of the African American community. Although mass incarceration, by law, is not unconstitutional nor does it break any federal or state laws, it has very deeply rooted problems against African…[Read more]