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    Introduction African American is a minority group which lives in America. They experienced discrimination‚ and other prejudice mostly by white people. The most pathetic discrimination happened by black men. In the past‚ People considered them as unknown people because black men were lack of identities. It did not matter if they are slaves or freeman‚ fathers or children‚ religious or not. The discriminations were happened in public places‚ medical facilities‚ education and other community services

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    Substance Abuse in the African American Community Stating the Problem      The contemporary problem that I would like to address is Substance abuse in African Americans community. Most Africain American uses Substance abuse as a stress reliever . They use religion by going to church to get strength asking for forgiviness. Adolescent are the one’s who are at risk the most . In the Hampton Roads you will see a lot of homeless people substance abuse users. Interview from a experience individual

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    in a big way when it comes to personal bias and diagnosis. In the African American community specifically mental illness is a disease that is not discussed and something that you definitely do not go to see a doctor about. African Americans are presumably more affected by mental than any other culture does to reasonings such as ongoing racial discrimination‚ high poverty‚ and constant segregation(Clifton‚ D‚ 2015).Those in the African American community tend to rely heavily on religion in hopes to

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    African-American Civil Rights Movement Your Name Course/Number Due Date Instructor Name Abstract An exploration of the Civil Rights Movement‚ as perceived by Fannie Lou Hammer‚ Lyndon B. Johnson‚ Rosa Parks‚ and Martin Luther King‚ Jr. African-American Civil Rights Movement In the early 1960s‚ leaders of the African-American political movement traveled to areas of high oppression. Their intent was to secure equal opportunities for African-Americans. These political leaders were called “African-American

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    The Challenges African Americans Have Overcome: Throughout history‚ African Americans have been faced with great adversity which they have overcome to get to the place where they are today. During the Civil Rights Movement‚ some of the most influential leaders were born; they came and paved the way for the upcoming generation. In many instances their circumstances cost them their lives. During the Civil Rights Movement‚ many events taken place to give us the freedom we deserved. On January 1

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    depictions of African American life in the United States throughout the 1900s. Through his work he portrays the sadness‚ happiness‚ and love in their culture. Hughes once said‚ “We Negro writers‚ just by being black‚ have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.” In other words‚ his and other African American writers’ work was criticized simply because of their ethnicity‚ so they had to be very careful about what and how they wrote. Most African American writers

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    Once the African Americans were freed they began to enjoy many of the simple things in life that we take for granted today‚ (Shultz. n.d.). They could go out and buy a dog if they wanted. They could hold meetings without having to worry about white people supervising them. They tried to become landowners. Many of them also moved around a lot‚ sometimes just to get away from the plantations where they once served as slaves‚ and others moved to looked for relatives and loved ones who had been sold

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    In the beginning‚ this war seemed to be a distant European conflict‚ but soon came to have a big impact on the social‚ economic‚ and political future of all black people. This war directly impacted African Americans because they contested the boundaries of American democracy‚ demanded their rights as American citizens‚ and took control of their humanity. The Great Migration reshaped black America and our nation as a whole. Between 1915 and 1920‚ six million black southerners moved to the North

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    construed by many as racial profiling‚ because they focus on Muslims of Arab and South Asian origin; however‚ male African Americans have experienced this racial profiling for decades. Defining racial profiling and discussing its impact on America will show that even in the smallest of towns this is a common practice that is just not going away. We will be discussing racial profiling and the African American male; however‚ let’s begin with explaining that racial profiling is not limited to one race‚ but all

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    to help the good of the African- American people‚ but then that organization becomes one of the biggest target in the eyes of police‚ and white America. Imagine having to take on the hatred of millions‚ with havoc and disaster being sparked out of the organization created for the good of the people. What was asked to be imagined has already happened right here in America. The Crips is one of America’s largest black organizations. This gang initially was a part of an African-American social movement

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