1. Histories of the Present
Soul songs like Donny Hathaway's "To Be Young, Gifted and Black," was revolutionary, in that they sought to instill pride of one's history, but at the same time motivate a new generation to reach new heights. ... The sense of hopelessness of the piece can best be conveyed in the line saying, "this life ain't worth the living .makes me wanna holler, throw up both my hands!"...
DuBois stated that, "The Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, ¾a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. ... Where on the other hand the house negro is under constant watch by the master and like Malcolm X wanted to resist and separate from him. ... This goes hand in hand with Malcolm X's movement because Malcolm wanted blacks to take a stand towards whites. ...
The Dream Yet to be Realized. Almost fifty years have passed since the U.S. Supreme Court declared, in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, that laws separating the races in school are unconstitutional. Hundreds of lawsuits later, black and white students were bused back and forth to desegregated schools in cities across the United States. ...
The Situation of African-Americans in America In their motherland Africa, black people lived together in tribes with the families staying together in the village and leading a live according to strong morals and rites. Each tribe had developed a culture and often an own language, and the people either prayed to their own Gods or (especially in north and central Africa) followed the teachings of the Koran. But in the eyes of most Europeans, all Africans were ignorant, pagan savages who needed to be introduced to Christianity and Western civilisation. When America was discovered in 1492, Eur...