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Music is known to be one of the most important aspects of any culture around the world. Through the different beats and lyrical contents of each song, thoughts and emotions…

The oceans surrounding the African Continent remain as turbulent as ever. The new millennium has brought to this continent of many Nations, anything but peace. Illiteracy and poverty are dancing…

In a November 2006 National Geographic News one can find groundbreaking information on the dietary habit of ancient human ancestors. Lasers were used to vaporize tiny particles of tooth enamel…

In the 1930’s, Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed the New Deal which had three goals; relief, recovery and reform. The New Deal offered many programs to help Americans cope with the…

African-American music has continued to evolve in the face of diehard musical currents since the 1950s. Floyd (1995) is curious about the effect of political, social and artistic currents on…

Born sometime in the late 19th century to African American and Native American parents, Edmonia Lewis rose to success in Boston, Massachusetts as a sculptor specializing in abolitionist and Civil…

The role of African American actresses during the early years of the motion picture is perhaps one of the most interesting studies for many historians. This is because of the…

In Jonah’s Gourd Vine (1934), Zora Neale Hurston portrays her protagonist, Reverend John Buddy Pearson, as a flawed Christian leader whose congregation in Sanford, Florida considers him to be both…

The Migration was the movement of approximately seven million Africans out of the Southern United States to the North, Midwest and West from 1916 to 1930. Precise estimates of the…

Juvenile delinquency is the act when a person ranging from ages of 10 through 17 years commits crime in the society. Juvenile delinquency of the youth is the main product…

Through the years, hip hop has evolved not just as a popular music genre but as an emergent subculture in American society.  Although it may be considered by many as…

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) once said that “As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master”, in his famous Gettysburg Address during the ‘Emancipation Proclamation’ in…

Almost two hundred years ago, the United States of America was very much different from the U.S.A. of the 21st century. The difference was not only in the infrastructure, the…

Strategies for African-American uplift throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries varied according to leaders’ personal styles and the social and political contexts in which they operated.  While some…

Of Our Spiritual Strivings by W.E.B. Dubois is the first essay in the author’s book The Souls of Black Folk published in 1903. The essay starts out with a poem…

Even during the early times, the Negroes were discriminated. They were segregated from others in almost all aspects of living. Negroes don’t get maximum utilization of their country’s resources. In…

Professor Wangari maathai is one of the most celebrated African women in the world due to her contributions towards environmental conservation and fight for human rights in her country. Dr….

In 1960s, Africa had one of the lowest rates of political participation for women. In recent reports by the Parliament Federation, it has been shown that Rwandan women now have…

Africans and African Americans have always struggled due to their black identity. James Baldwin was one writer who tried to lift the heavy burden of blackness from their blackness and…

Although their home was once called the “Dark Continent” by European explorers who cautiously inspected the beautiful land, Africa was actually not as dark and scary as what it seemed…