Some black people use basketball as a way out of the ghetto, but the other half turns to basketball because that's all they know. Those who use basketball to get out of the ghetto are the ones who make it; they see basketball as a light. ... So what does that got to do with poor black people in the ghetto? ... About the author Brent Staples is an editorial writer for The New York Times and holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Chicago. ...

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Gwendolyn Brooks is a prominent African American poet of the twentieth century, and is known for her indelible impact in African American literature. Brooks was born in 1917 in Topeka, Kansas. Soon after her birth her family moved to Chicago, the city where she was associated with the rest of life...

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I remember him saying how much his life has changed for the better since he moved to New York. ... Although New York wasn't perfect for him it was better then the South. ... The black migration to New York City and other Northern cities was characterized by "push" and "pull" factors. ... By the mid to late 1920's, the Harlem Renaissance was in full swing in New York City. ... Harlem became a fad for middle class, whit, New York. ...

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Therefore, gangster rap is a category that is a plague to Black society because of its ghetto endeavors and its root in Black culture. ... In his song Dear Momma, Tupac expresses his feelings on his mother and the life of a mother raising a child in the ghetto. ... The song Changes acts as a social critique of life as a young man in the ghetto and the need for change. ... Changes and Dear Momma are strong examples of his outlook of change and the need for optimism in the Ghetto. ... Dear Momma addressed the power of family to a young man raised in the ghetto. ...

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Jon Rice's The World of the Illinois Panthers and Johanna Fernandez's Between Social Service Reform and Revolutionary Politics: The Young Lords, Late Sixties Radicalism, and Community Organizing in New York City discuss the mobilization of grassroots to find solutions to the ills that plagued the black community. The Illinois Black Panther Party worked toward dealing with issues that negatively affected Chicago's West Side ghetto, "The Illinois Black Panther Party was an expression of the spirit of grassroots empowerment that had rid the South of de facto segregation." ... Dur...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

African American poetics as well as all kinds of art and literature blossomed in a ghetto of New York called Harlem, where black artists began to write and make art of the subject of African Americas" share of the apple called "America". ... So I wrote a poem about it called "Advertisement for the Waldorf-Astoria," modeled after an ad in Vanity Fair announcing the opening of New York's greatest hotel. ...

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"Honky," by Dalton Conley, tells the story of a young man who must come to terms with his whiteness in an African-American/Latino ghetto. ... In the case of this memoir, Dalton Conley's skin color proves a difficult life he must face in the racially tense climate of New York City in the 1970's and 80's. ... Even in his own neighborhood in New York City, he realizes what a nightmare it is to grow up in the crime-ridden neighborhood. ... Dalton says, "As I walked the streets of Berkley on my first day, I noticed that this university town was run down in a different way than ...

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Having resided in the areas of New York City, Dallas, and now South Carolina it's apparently obvious that malt liquor beverages are produced to engross black minority communities. ... Many of those websites mock black American culture typically using Ebonics (in an over exaggerated "ghetto" tone) as a comical way to exhibit their *Cash Rules Everything Around Me consciously positive views of malt liquor. ... Having resided in the areas of New York City, Dallas, and now South Carolina it's apparently obvious that malt liquor beverages are produced to engross black minority communi...

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"After the death of his stepfather, he returned to New York where he settled in Greenwich Village, and was determined to concentrate on his writing" (World Book Encyclopedia, pg. 31). Baldwin's interests went from being an activist in the civil rights movement, to book reviewer and essayist for New York periodicals, to international celebration as literary artist. ... ther he was the Medgar Evers or James Meredith in Mississippi, at a session with Robert Kennedy in New York, on a speaking tour for the Congress of Racial Equality, or helping in the voter registration in Alabama, Baldwin...

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were both fighting the same war for the same people. Their methods were different but both achieved, in time, what they were trying to bring across. Never did they back down from their beliefs or compromised them. They were the embodiment of integrity. King a...

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It was at this time that Baldwin published his first essay, "The Harlem Ghetto". ... The Harlem Ghetto's echo, The Fire Next Time (1963) was another grueling and spiteful account of racism in the United States. ... He also began to write of his newfound observations of New York intellectuals and the racial and sexual tension among them in, Another Country (1962). ...

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Good Times appeared on 1974 (Ingram "Good Times") Florida and James Evans were lower middle-class blacks, with their three children in a high-rise ghetto on the south side of Chicago. ... It was about a black family making it to the top in New York City. ... The Huxtable residence, in New York City, where Cliff (an obstetrician) also maintained his office. ...

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However, much was negative: student and anti-war protest movements, political assassinations, and ghetto riots excited American people and resulted in lack of respect for authority and the law. ... And to top off the hippie era, one of the largest concerts in the world took place in Woodstock, New York. ...

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A uniquely American art form, jazz traced its birth to a combination of ragtime, marching band music, and the blues. " The spontaneity and excitement of the music produced by black artists 'riffing' on old blues and classical themes found a ready outlet in the New York of the post-war era."... The diverse literary expression of the Harlem Renaissance ranged from Langston Hughes's weaving of the rhythms of African American music into his poems of ghetto life, as in The Weary Blues (1926), to Claude McKay's use of the sonnet form as the vehicle for his impassioned poems attac...

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The Harlem Renaissance was an African American cultural movement of the late 1920s and early 1930s that was centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. ... As more and more educated and socially conscious blacks settled in New York's neighborhood of Harlem, it developed into the political and cultural center of black America. "In the history of New York, the significance of the name Harlem has changed from Dutch to Irish to Jewish to Negro (Johnson, 1925)."" ... Driven by the charismatic zeal of Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican who had migrated to New York, captured the grass-roots ...

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1.0 Introduction Malcolm X was a passionate and gifted black orator that was born in 1925. Malcolm, who was born in Nebraska, was an influential African-American nationalist leader. He was also a Muslim minister, and acted as the Islam's spokesperson. As a result of his influence, the number of Mus...

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"To the slave, your celebration is a sham your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery .There is not a nation on the Earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States," stated Frederick Douglass at an Independence Day speech in New York. ... The New York Herald Tribune said "the cause of Negro equality" lost nothing "valuable by Malcolm X's passing" because "he was a destructive force." ...

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Malcolm then pursued a life of crime alongside his friend "Shorty" in Harlem, New York. ... Malcolm began lecturing individuals of the Ghetto showing them how strong and united they would be under Elijah Muhammad and the Nation. ... He continued these preaching's and was credited for establishing new mosques in cities such as Detroit, Michigan and Harlem, New York. ...

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Is it a disbelief that many Africans think African-Americans are lazy, ghetto, wild, careless, untrustworthy, devious, and they are continuously complaining about racism when everything has been given to them? ... Although some Africans may be in extreme poverty, Americans need to understand that just how we have rich people in places like Hollywood or New York, Africa is also made up of different areas and many different countries where people may be wealthy or they may be poor. ... Although not all African-Americans are gangsters and thief's or ghetto and trashy, the ones that do fall u...

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"The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery." W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction of America. (Alexander 20). W.E.B. Du Bois reminds us that former slaves had "a brief moment in the sun" before returning to a status akin to slavery. In many schools ac...

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Life in the ghettos of the big industrialised cities was characterised by social discrimination and de facto se-gregation. ... The masses in the northern ghettos were frustrated and hopeless because of the social discrimination and de facto segregation they experienced daily. ...

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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. ...

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Social scientists have documented the rebellious spirit and acts of protest by blacks as they lay shackled in the holds of slave ships, labored in the fields of southern landowners, and settled into the urban ghettos. ... The NAACP had been founded in New York eight years earlier and had previously focused most of its organizing in the North. ...

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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. ...

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In general, Harlem / New York, was the focal point of the Renaissance - everyone associated something on his own with Harlem. Most writers spent at least some time in Harlem, others like Langston Hughes or Claude McKay, described the New York ghetto life in their short stories; it simply provided a various number of setting for their stories. Nigger Heaven, published in 1926, for example was an attraction to whites as well to black people in America, who wanted to know something about life in the ghetto. ...

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