Changes tells us a story of living in the "hood" and dealing with issues such as police brutality, poverty and racism. ... Changes is telling a story of unity and through this story Tupac puts together a platform for peace, unity and understanding. ... He states that although he was raised in a rough environment that nothing can compare to a mothers love and all he can do now is show her how much he appreciates all that she struggled for. ... By addressing the text and tying the two songs together we will show how the text has bared an imprint onto society. ... Although Tupac was labele...

• Word Count: 3526
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

After World War I, huge numbers of African-Americans migrated to the industrial North from the South; this movement is referred to as the Great Migration. ... This praise from the radio consultant can be compared to the literary works of Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance; this is because the artistic value of the works is appreciated by scholars while they still tell the story of racism and the effects of marginalization. ... In Lamar's mix tape, Section 80, he mentions during a spoken interlude in a song that someone must tell the story of their life in Compton to fully understand how...

• Word Count: 2640
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Attenborough's problem was that a true film focussed on blacks would be of little interest to the vastly potential audience of the Northern Hemisphere. ... This is bias, as it only shows one side of the story the side which shows the blacks as good and the whites as bad. ... In South Africa blacks have tribal wars and there is a great deal of black thuggery in the black townships. ... It has two clearly discernible halves, each with their own story to tell and independent of each other. ... Ken, the photographer, is worried about how the white readership will react when they raving on ab...

• Word Count: 2533
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Celie writes her story in the form of letters addressed to God. ... When Celie tells her that Mr. __ will beat her if she leaves, Shug agrees to stay. It's at this time when the reader realizes how much Shug cares for Celie. ... "He just do his business, get off, go to sleep,"" Celie tells Shug. ... When the two men go out to drink, Celie reveals to Shug the true nature of her childhood and how her father's rape was the cause of her pregnancies. ...

• Word Count: 4341
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

The first being as to how this event quickly turned from cop versus man to white cop versus black man. ... So how does this story become relevant in the first place. Like anything else, the story of this event quickly rose to national attention through the networking and distribution of media and news outlets. ... (freedomoutpost.com) This suggests to any rational person that perhaps the leading black activist in the United States of America has no true credibility because he is willing to make up, sponsor, and campaign, a hoax that keeps a thing like racism very real. Al Sharpton has lacked i...

• Word Count: 3113
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

But seeing how we are in 2015 is it really appropriate to ask if a change has actually come. ... Irwin's book seeks to examine how America has used its jail system as a new, under examined form of social control. ... Similarly, in The New Jim Crow, Alexander examined the racial differences during the period in American history often titled as the war on drugs. Each section in these two powerful pieces of work provided an extraordinary point of view on just how the justice system works and also showed how the system that we are taught to believe is fair and equal may not be the case for al...

• Word Count: 6384
• Approx Pages: 26

Celia's denial for their continual accusations made them even more stubborn and desperate insisting her to tell them where Robert was. ... Generalizing the law of protection and implementing it over slaves, meant a risk of making both owner and slave at an almost equal social level and would make their idea of ownership pointless, knowing there is no true ownership when there is no total control. ...

• Word Count: 2545
• Approx Pages: 10

Never has a book of history opened my eyes wider, captivated me more, than the story of Malcom Little. ... The government felt that by her asking for this help they had the right to invade her home, tell her how to raise her children, and when the time came they put her in an insane asylum and separated her children, sending them to different homes. ... After the shoe shine job outgrew Malcom, he went to work for the railroad during World War II, this job landed him in Harlem and into a life of crime that was the bases for his life prior to prison. ... It was a letter from one of his broth...

• Word Count: 4036
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School