For this final photoshare, I decided to share a part of Sam Cooke’s song, “A Change is Gonna Come”. This is already a personal favorite but after reflecting upon it, I realized that it is a song that goes with this week’s theme perfectly. It was released in 1964 on one of Sam Cooke’s albums. Looking further into the history behind this song, it is…[Read more]

For this week’s share, I’ve decided to share a video that I watched a while back called “‘Dear White People’: Inside the series taking on what it means to be black in America”. The video begins with “race has always been a threat in the social fabric of America,” while showing videos of recent incidents where people of color have been affected by…[Read more]

For this weeks photo share, I decided to share a picture I got from an article titled “Why America’s National Parks are so White”. This article included data from the US census that compared race/ethnicity of national park visitors to the actual US population. The article says that 78 percent of national park visitors were white, 9 percent…[Read more]

For this weeks photo share, I decided to share the lyrics to one of Usher’s songs featuring Nas and Bibi Bourelly. I first heard the song in class when we were watching a part of the Netflix documentary “13th”. I went back to look for it and most times, people tend to listen to a rhythm or beat of a song and don’t pay much attention to the lyrics.…[Read more]

For this week’s photo share, I decided to choose a photo that I believe is still very relevant in the education system today. This is a photo that shows the kind of protests that happened back when schools were very segregated and there were white and schools of color. Because of these protests, schools became integrated but I believe that…[Read more]

As we continues the topic of segregation in class, a lot of our conversations have been about the integration of different races in white suburban communities. The picture I have chosen was featured in an article titled “American Segregation Started Long Before the Civil War” by Nicholas Guyatt. I believe it relates to the things we have been…[Read more]

The topic this week is segregation. I decided to choose a political cartoon of the Brown v. Board of Education case back in the 1950s. Back then, schools were so segregated that children of color were required to attend separate schools.  Like the cartoon says, some children had to go to schools so far and underfunded that they didn’t have the…[Read more]