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Free at Last
I want to end my blog posts with some peaceful ideas and push for a little unity through music. A song that comes to mind is “Does It...
We Finally Got a Piece of the Pie
If you listen to the theme song of the 1975 sitcom, The Jefferson’s, you hear Ja’net Dubois singing, “We finally got a piece of that...
Shopping While Black
It is nothing new for a black person to be racially profiled. It happens all of the time in America. It normally happens because black...
Hair is Hair
One feature that all races and ethnicities have in common is hair. Hair is defined as an aggregate of such filaments, as that covering...
“So, are you saying that you are voting for Obama because he’s black”?
In the year 2007, Barack Obama announced to America that he was running for president of the United States. Obama was not the first...
Blackface
Blackface was a form of theatrical makeup used predominantly by non-black performers to represent a black person. The practice gained...
Malcom X and Me
While discussing the Ballot and the Bullet in class, it seems as though many ideas called out to me. First thought was, I have never seen...
Dreadlocks and culture appropriation
This blog entry will be in response to an aspect of African American culture, dreadlocks, and to the appropriation of it in white...
