[Tieara Clark]

For this week’s theme, I choose to use the song “Freedom” by Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar. I also chose to include pictures of her performing this song at the 2016 BET Awards. Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar illustrate the black community’s everlasting cry to complete freedom within the lyrics. “Freedom, Freedom where are you? Cause I need freedom too. I break chains all by myself…” The mentioning of chains is obviously a reference to slave times as slaves were placed in chains. Later in the song, Kendrick addresses police brutality and harassment, fighting against oppression and even the effect of mainstream media and how most news outlets typically focus on painting a negative picture of black folks. I thought it was important to include the performance because that performance was done in a small pool of water which alludes to slaves wading in the water and even the negro spiritual song “Wade in the Water” which apparently was sung by Harriet Tubman to warn slaves to hide in the water while trying to escape slave owners on their path to freedom.

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I chose to share a photo from blackish because it reminds of actually never going camping in my childhood. As I remember in class, my friends and I were discussing how black families in specific don’t take their children to outdoor retreats because that’s never been exposed to them. We don’t really view it as a chance to get away or as a vacation. And from what I can remember in this episode of blackish, I believe Dre didn’t want to go camping, he had other plans for his children but they wanted to camp out with their school and he ended up enjoying it. The second photo I decided to share was a meme because I feel like people often ignore the negative points of American history and how this land was stolen from Native Americans. Yet some have a fear that immigrants will do the same now but that’s already been done in the past by colonizers.

Family time at its best. The Johnsons are going camping on Tuesday! #blackish pic.twitter.com/n9fRxhIkFl

— black-ish (@blackishabc) January 3, 2019

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The picture I chose for this week is of the memoir Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals. This week’s topic reminded me of a book I believed I read in school before. This was about the group of black students alson known as the “Little Rock Nine” intergrating into Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas I believe after the Brown vs Board of Edcuation case. I remember in the memoir, they talked about how they struggled with the intergration and dealt with various forms of harrassment from their white counterparts. This relates perfectly to this week’s theme because it ) discusses their everyday challenges of dealing with intergration

https://audiobookstore.com/audiobooks/warriors-dont-cry-1.aspx

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I chose to share this image for this week’s theme of beyond the civil rights movement. I chose this picture because it illustrated an organized movement in support of the Travon Martin case which catapulted the BlackLivesMatter Movement. The Blacklivesmatter movement, which campaigns against excessive police brutality and advocates for the equal treatment and recognization of black lives, is today’s new version of the civil rights movement. The photographer of this picture is Julie Fletcher.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/19/blacklivesmatter-birth-civil-rights-movement

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