This week I would like to share a video I found named Stand Up/ Stand N Rock  #NoDAPL by Taboo. I feel the song fits perfectly with this week’s theme since it talks about how water is life and the injustices that were done to Native Americans and their lands. One has to keep in mind how over the course of time lands have been taken from their rig…[Read more]

This week I wanted to share the lyrics from the song titled Changes by Tupack, who is a famous rapper. The song expresses the injustices that African American people would have to live on a daily and how some issues are related to one another. In the song he mentions the issue on how based on the color of your skin you can tell if you are poor and…[Read more]

This week’s theme is #sayhername and #metoo. The image I picked for this week’s photo share demonstrates black woman, who are shirtless. They are protesting against police brutality and the multiple crimes that have been done against black woman and children, who have been also killed. I found their protest very powerful because these woman wer…[Read more]

This week’s theme is white space. The picture that I picked for this week is about a protest that happen at UC Berkeley about demanding safe spaces for people of color and not just white. The students protesting were found not allowing white students from entering certain areas and debating to why that was occurring. Students were found asking o…[Read more]

This week’s theme is Black Lives Matter. This week, I want to share a video I found on YouTube titled Black Lives Matter Moverment|Global Citizen. The video talks about Black folks matter just like any other human being. The video also helps shed light to incidents that have happen about police brutality and how some officers have not stoped to f…[Read more]

This week’s theme is native exclusion and the making of “America’s Best Idea.” I picked this photo from the article “The Forgotten History of ‘Violent Displacement’ That Helped Create The National Parks” because I felt that it emphasized the importance of this week’s theme. The article brought to attention how “[b]ut what’s often left unmentione…[Read more]

This week’s theme has to do with the origins of ethnic studies. The image I picked reminded me a lot about the movie called “precious knowledge” because it talked about how some government officials believed that the Mexican-American class was being racist and mean towards white folks, when that was not the situation. The image shows stude…[Read more]

This week’s theme is mass incarceration and the making of a racial undercaste. This week, I picked two images that I would like to share with the class, which I believe relate to the week’s theme. The first image shows as a little black kid on his bike with training wheels is being stopped by some police officers. I believe the image comes to sho…[Read more]

This week’s theme has to do with the hiphop generation. I first want to point out how some people believe that hiphop is aggressive towards authority just to be disrespectful, but that is not the situation. Hiphop is used towards shedding light to injustices that people of color have gone through or are going through. For example there is the s…[Read more]

This week’s theme has to do with education and segregation. I decided to pick this image showing children doing the pledge of allegiance because it comes to show how they are willing to pledge their loyalty to their country, but their country is not willing to provide them equal opportunities. One’s country should provide everyone equal opp…[Read more]

Image Name: “ Meghan Markle’s friend tortured in Saudi prison for fighting for women’s rights”

Source: Sunday Express

Date: February 2, 2019

This week is beyond the civil right movement. I just want to bring to attention that not all heros that fight for people’s rights are recognized, which is sadly the case at times. The article brings to…[Read more]

This week’s theme continues to be segregation. The image I picked for this week’s photo share demonstrates young boys having signs that say they do not want black people at their schools because they wont accept them. This connects to segregation because people were teaching their sons to only like their own color, when they should have lea…[Read more]

This weeks theme is beyond the civil rights movement. This week I would like to share a quote from James Baldwin that speaks about how today’s actions towards people of color haven’t changed as much from the past. The quotes brings to attention how a white person might demand his/her rights and have them granted with a gun, but if a person of col…[Read more]

Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/05/segregation-now/359813/

Date: March 2014

Author: Nikole-Hannah-jones

This weeks class theme is segregation. This article I found on the Atlantic magazine titled “ Segregation Now…Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, the schools in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, reveals how sep…[Read more]

This weeks theme focuses on leaders during the civil rights movement. The person that I decided to focus on for this theme is Martin Luther King Jr. because he wrote several speeches trying to help people of color be able to gain the social justice they deserved. For example, he wrote the speech titled “Beyound Vietname” which talked about how the…[Read more]

This weeks theme has to do with theorizing race and space. The reason that I picked this picture of Micheal Jackson with the lyrics of Man in the Mirror is because it demonstrates how in order to make a change in the world, one has to start with changing/improving one’s mindset and actions. For example, people of color in the past had to learn h…[Read more]

This week’s theme is the right to marry and the right to exist, which connects to the LBGTQ community. In lecture, we as a class had discussed about the discrimination, lack of resources, and lack of humanity that people have towards same sex couples. We also mentioned how when couples of the same sex try to adopt a child that they are often t…[Read more]