The picture above shows Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addressing a crowd with a megaphone in Roxbury, a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 22, 1965. I personally believe that there are different sides to every man and woman in the world. I don’t think that anybody is one way 100% of the time. You […]
In the article from Dr. Hobson,”The King of Atlanta: Martin Luther King Jr. and Public Memory,” he has a quote that says “public spaces purportedly transmit notions of what is right and true because they are “authorized by the government” or corporations on behalf of all citizens.” Sadly, this is true, and it even holds […]
After watching this BBC episode, Black and British, last night and giving myself time to think before writing, the thing I found most surprising isn’t necessarily the information itself, but the ideas that spawn from the program. The fact that Britain is whitewashing their history when it comes to the topic is black people is […]
I’d never heard the phrase “America is a melting pot” until I made it to college. A lot of classes I’ve taken have revolved around the idea that, whether or not “The American Dream” is real, it is/was an idea that people from all walks of life bought into, traveling long and far to try […]