Journalism – Page 53

“Contradictions of African American Males”

23Oct

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“Contradictions of African American Males”

The Washington Post has published a very important survey on "Being a Black Man." This is fascinating, detailed and thoughtful enough an article to pass as a Master's Thesis in many sociology departments around the nation. Here are some basic contradictions underscored by the Post survey conducted on a random sample of 2.864 adults nationwide: 1) 56% of black men believe the SYSTEM is to blame for their economic difficulties. However 59% also acknowledge that there were things they have failed to do that would have made a difference in the outcome. 2) 79% of the black men surveyed were OPTIMISTIC about their own personal future. Yet 34% said, as a GROUP, black men were facing a worse future and 36% said the future would be the same. Only 29% said a better future was awaiting black men a...

Black Lives Matter: A Movement of Deception

20Oct

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Black Lives Matter: A Movement of Deception

First, I encourage everyone to go the #BlackLivesMatter website and read the "About Us" and "Herstory" pages. Please read "the call to action" by the women who created the #BlackLivesMatter slogan and who affirm, "We are working to (re)build the Black liberation movement." What I found interesting is the point the women made in the "Broadening the Conversation" section which stated, "Progressive movements in the United States have made some unfortunate errors when they push for unity at the expense of really understanding the concrete differences in context, experience and oppression." To that point, their statement reminds me of the beginnings of a well-known terrorist organization who called themselves "kuklux" which understood the concrete differences in context of the post civil war ...

“Big Girls Don’t Cry” – It Takes a Tough Woman to Withstand Harassment in American Politics

13Oct

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“Big Girls Don’t Cry” – It Takes a Tough Woman to Withstand Harassment in American Politics

"BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY. The Election that Changed Everything for American Women." Rebecca Traister. New York: Free Press. In BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY, Rebecca Traister follows key women involved in the 2008 Presidential election, to tell the story "about the country and its culture, how we all reacted to the arrival of these surprising new figures on the presidential stage and what they showed us about how far we had come and how far we had yet to go." She does an extremely good job of reaching that goal for most of us. Traister basic contexts are gender politics (including but not narrowly defined by feminism and misogyny), race (including but not narrowly defined by racism), and inter-generational perspectives. She observes that Hillary Clinton, who would put 18 million cracks in the highes...

Ann Petry: First African American Woman to Sell Over One Million Books

11Oct

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Ann Petry: First African American Woman to Sell Over One Million Books

Ann Petry, the first African American female author to sell over one million copies of her book. Petry was born in 1911 in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, where her father and grandfather ran a drugstore. Petry loved to read and from the age of fourteen she knew she wanted to be a writer. She wrote poetry and short plays in high school, but after graduation she chose the safe route and enrolled in the pharmacy program at the University of Connecticut where she earned her PhG degree. Ann worked in the family business until she married in 1938 and moved to New York. The direction of Ann's life changed when she took her first job in the advertising department of an African American newspaper, The Amsterdam News. She later became a reporter and editor for the People's Voice, a weekly newspaper, w...

9Oct

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Gender Talk

In the African-American studies book Gender Talk, Dr. Johnnetta Cole and Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall argue that, in the 21st century, issues of sexism must be addressed along with issues of racism in the African American community in order for the community to fully succeed. Dr. Cole is the President of Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina. She is President emerita of Spelman College and Professor Emerita of Anthropology, Women's Studies, and African American Studies at Emory University. A nationally known African American feminist-intellectual, she is the author of several books, including Conversations: Straight Talk with America's Sister President. Beverly Guy-Sheftallis the Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies and English, and the Director of the Women's Research and ...

Toni Morrison the Most Enduring Literary Feminine and African American Voice

4Oct

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Toni Morrison the Most Enduring Literary Feminine and African American Voice

Toni Morrison was born Chloe Ardelia ( Anthony) Wofford on February 18, 1931 in Lorain, Ohio, where her parents, migrants from the South, had moved to, to escape the problems of southern racism. Morrison is the second of four children, to, Ramah Willis and George Wofford, migrant sharecroppers on both sides, both of whom came from sharecropping families who had moved North in pursuit of better living conditions in the early 1900s. Her father's family, in particular, had faced a great deal of discrimination. Due to these bitter memories and the racial troubles he endured during his childhood, he maintained a strong distrust of whites throughout his lifetime. Morrison's parents instilled in her the value of group loyalty, which they believed was essential to surviving the harsh realitie...

27Sep

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Why Trump Was Elected

Many have wondered how this blustery, tactless, and outright bully of a man was elected president of the United States. But wonder no more as the reasons are right before our eyes. Only he can fulfil the role of taking the world to the predicted total disaster. His speech to the United Nation and his confrontational manner is just what the Spirit of the Universe required to complete the destruction of the earth. Does anyone doubt that we are in the end times? As entire nations are being destroyed by conflict, the weather, and climate change this is only the start of it. We may watch the pain of those who are already going through it and not suspect that it is our turn next. But who is that naïve? Previous presidents have trod carefully around the issues that are now coming to a head, and...

Is the Charlottesville Riot the Start of a Civil War in the USA?

25Sep

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Is the Charlottesville Riot the Start of a Civil War in the USA?

One has only to look at the degree of hate in the country to understand that a civil war is imminent. It won't go away either because racial intolerance has too much support from high places. As the nation faces problems on many fronts the last thing it can afford is for an eruption of this nature at home. With most armed to the teeth with deadly weapons once it starts there will be no stopping it until the country is torn to shreds. Is this the price of democracy or something else - slavery? The most persecuted are those who have served America as forced labour in one form or another. Their sweat and tears built the country into what it has become today. Now those who see themselves as better are hell-bent on proving their superiority by ridding their regions of those to whom they owe so...

The Battle For Minimum Weight – Blacks and the Obesity Epidemic

15Sep

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The Battle For Minimum Weight – Blacks and the Obesity Epidemic

Caught up in the frenetic grind of her fashion industry job, Allison Ferrell, 41, paid little attention to her increasing waistline. As Manager of Product Operation and Logistics for Abaete, a New York-based luxury apparel line, lunch was a luxury she couldn't afford. She said she was crazed and I couldn't spare the time so If I didn't eat by 1:00 p.m. that was it for the rest of the day. After a 2005 surgery left her stomach upset, she routinely avoided a litany of foods and routinely skipped meals. Her erratic eating habits kicked her body into pre-starvation mode. Believing it was starving, her body stopped burning calories and began to store food reserves causing an increase in body fat. I'd had a good run, but my negative habits were catching up with me and now it was time to take ca...

Tips on Choosing Black Skin Care Products

13Sep

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Tips on Choosing Black Skin Care Products

When it comes to black skin care products there is a lot of mystery and a lot of misinformation about what products really work well for African American skin. But first let's talk about African American skin care in general. African-Americans have special needs for their skin primarily because of their skin tone and it's proneness to dryness,discoloration and hyperpigmentation. Over all black skin doesn't age as rapidly as white skin because it's pigment resist the damage from sun rays. Although "black don't crack" it does droop so products that work for elasticity. Other ethnic specific skin problems include razor bumps and ashy skin. Some traditions in black culture are to use natural products including shea butter and coca butter. These products in their raw form have natural healing ...