Judge Shira Scheindlin, discovered that the New York Police Department altered to a "policy of indirect racial profiling" (Goldstein, 2013). In the inner-cities the amount of stop and frisk are majority Blacks and Hispanics. New York City police have made it a procedure to stop "Blacks and Hispanics who would not have been stopped if they were white" (Goldstein, 2013). ... In New York police officers use race as a factor in stopping people on the streets, sometimes to scare them. ...

• Word Count: 1433
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

John explains, "The whites seemed far away, out there in their parts of the city. ... They would live on separate sides of the cities. ... New York World Book, 2002. 17 Mar. 2003. ... New York: Signet, 1960 Charlotte, Denny. ... New York: Columbia University, 1996. ...

• Word Count: 1860
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

New York City in the 1920's was a place of immense growth and richness in African-American culture. ... It was an amazing period in New York for African Americans; the first real large-scale expression of their culture. ... The many impoverished black families in New York believed in the promises of Roosevelt and trusted that things would get better. ...

• Word Count: 1313
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

One newspaper article said, " After six hours of race rioting, extending over the entire city, two white men are known to be dead and about a score are known to be injured. ... New York Times 26 Oct. 1996, Sat. ed. 2 Feb. 2001 Blakey, Ellen Sue, et al. ... "Dead Estimated at 100; City Is Quiet." ...

• Word Count: 1259
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• Grade Level: High School

Totten the national vice president of transit bus lines, and Mayor Gayle to protest the buss companies request to the City Commission to raise the buss fare. ... A few days later all request were met except for the seating arrangement because the bus company had to obey the city segregation laws. ... Members of the MIA met with the City Commission numerous times trying to right the wrongs that were created by the city's segregation laws but, in spite of Dr. King valet efforts, the City Commission refused to meet the demands of the black community. ... Snipers shot at buses, forcing th...

• Word Count: 1946
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Clearly, the birthplace is one of the key components that make Son and Jadine completely different in light of the fact that Son starts from a residential community Eloe, while Jadine is a common city young lady. ... Normally, his perspectives and belief system are completely not the same as those of a city young lady Jadine. ... She is a model who works in such expansive urban communities as New York and Paris and she can't comprehend the reasoning and mindset of such individuals as Son. ... In fact, her lifestyle made her more integrated in the world of big cities and she cannot share S...

• Word Count: 1453
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The Harlem Renaissance centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, and the movement had significant impacts throughout the United States. ... Van Vechten recommended Langston Hughes's work to Knopf that which is a New York publishing house, Knopf Published Hughes' s first volume of poems, the Weary Blues, in 1920, and many other Hughes's works later. ...

• Word Count: 1512
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She's a successful, young black woman living on her own in New York City. ... Because some black males had "made it", others in situations of poverty and inner city environments were told to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. "Black men in inner cities were no longer able to vent their rage against 'the man' because in all likelihood, 'the man' was a brother"(Anderson, 98). ...

• Word Count: 1928
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography

Du Bois describes the relationship between a black man, Jim, and a white woman, Julia, after a comet hits New York City and kills everyone except them. ... In The Comet, Du Bois expends a lot of thought and attention on portraying the lifeless city after the disaster to emphasize the embedment of racism in society. ... Du Bois uses the careful description of this dire and silent post-apocalyptic city to underlie the characters' unvoiced fear and uncertainty about the future. ...

• Word Count: 2007
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Hate crime legislation is discrimination. That's right, pure discrimination. But you're probably thinking this is ironic, as you've been told hate crimes are supposed to fight this very thing. And after all, this is America, the land where we're supposed to be of any gender, race, religion, or sexua...

• Word Count: 1254
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterdays and today's school drop outs are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did and they inevitably move into more and more, worse and worse, illegality and immorality. ...

• Word Count: 2034
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout history, many different views have been taken by African American leaders on how to solve the racial injustice that has plagued the African American community ever since they became known as independent citizens in this country. This is shown best by the great differences in methods used ...

• Word Count: 1527
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James Baldwin is considered one of the most important African American writer of novels, poetry, short stories and essays, as well as a civil right activist. He was born in New York City's Harlem in 1924 (Smith 235). Due to his mother's inaccessibility and his stepfather's stern and remote manner, B...

• Word Count: 1511
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• Has Bibliography

Malcolm X, a civil rights leader in the 1960's believed that blacks and whites should be segregated. He also believed that white man was evil and were trying to brainwash all blacks and that Martin Luther King's "non-violent protests" weren't working and that violence was needed for change. Malco...

• Word Count: 1424
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Alice Walker wrote The Color Purple to capture and illuminate the hardship and bitterness African American women had to face in the early 1900s. Walker's story is filled with very powerful and emotional experiences such as rape, physical abuse and verbal abuse, prejudice, the oppression of women,...

• Word Count: 1523
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The rise of black ghettos in northern and western cities may have complicated the problems of segregation and discrimination, but they also were grounds for encouragement for movements like the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and 1930s. This literary, artistic, and intellectual movement, centered in New York's Harlem, kindled a new African-American cultural identity by celebrating black traditions and the black voice. ...

• Word Count: 1898
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School