The State of Black America As of today the state of Black America is at a place where there is a lot of work that has to be done. The Black America has made many strides in the right direction the community is still lacking in many ways. The black community is one that is not unified as it should be. Blacks don’t control the communities that they live in or have a real say so about what goes on in them. The black youth in America seems to have a plight that is continuously worsening. The state
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O.J Simpson‚ an ex-sports celebrity and a former actor was featured on a cover of Time magazine on June 27‚ 1994. He was on trial for the murder of his wife Nicole. The same portrait was published by Newsweek magazine but there was one major difference between the two cover portraits. Newsweek used the unaltered photo of Simpson while Time magazine decolored the image darkening his face. Many people claimed it was a deliberate attempt to demonize him. Could this be a show of racism? Such were the
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After viewing the documentary film‚ ’Out of Control: AIDS in Black America’‚ I was shocked and vividly awaken to how this disease has reached epidemic portion in the black community of this country‚ and how it has been ignored by both black and white leadership at all levels of community involvement and well as at governmental levels . Phill Wilson‚ executive director of the Black AIDS Institute in Los Angeles says that many of our black leaders and celebrities have acknowledged and supported to fight
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been ignored. Black poverty expands beyond their homes. It’s rooted deeply in their communities. It’s in the neighborhood stores‚ it’s in the community center. It’s in the schools that don’t educate‚ but merely instruct. It’s in the lack of effort and motivation to do better in life. And above all this‚ it’s in the hearts and minds of the children who neglect to find role models in their own homes. According to Emily Badger (2015)‚ in The Washington Post expresses that “a poor black family‚ in short
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Black Humor One of the most underappreciated and unrecognized forms of comedy is black humor. Black humor often deals with events that are not often associated with other forms of comedy‚ such as war‚ murder‚ insanity and death. The main reason that this form of comedy is so underappreciated is that it requires some thinking on the part of the audience and many people are not willing to do that. The types of humor that are popular today do not require much thinking and can be characterized
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homosexuality in black America. "Homosexuality is romantic attraction‚ sexual attraction‚ or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender." In black America being homosexual as an African American man you are faced with alot of risk factors. You are unequally effected by HIV‚ "Black churches may be a source of stigma which can exacerbate HIV risk and contribute to negative health and physological behavior." For centuries the church has been at the center of the black community. During
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James Colley Jr. was an ordinary man with little money and no fame. He shot and killed his wife‚ Amanda Cloaninger-Colley and her close friend‚ Lindy Dobbins on August 27‚ 2015. He fled from the police but was later arrested and found guilty of both murders. On June 13‚ 1994‚ Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend‚ Ronald Goldman‚ were found murdered outside of Simpson’s condo. Her husband‚ at the time‚ was the very famous and very wealthy professional football player Orenthal James Simpson‚ also known
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In the event that the O.J. Simpson case characterized the most recent century’s fixation on American wrongdoing and its arrangement of equity‚ "Innocent Killer" puts forth the defense for owning that refinement in this one. Armies of watchers‚ changed into online sleuths‚ keep on analyzing through the subtle elements of the mind-twisting instance of Steven Avery‚ the Manitowoc District man who was wrongly sentenced in 1985‚ just to be captured two years after his discharge from jail for the awful
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In 1994‚ one of the most famous court trials in history began. This trial was that of O.J. Simpson. The crime being prosecuted in this case was murder. O.J. Simpson is an ex NFL football star who was accused of killing his wife‚ Nicole Brown Simpson‚ and her alleged boyfriend‚ Ronald Goldman. Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were stabbed to death and found in the Simpson’s courtyard of their house. The crime being prosecuted in the O.J. Simpson trial can be explained through self-control theory
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Two men driven to the brink‚ while most would try to not fall down they accept their fate and enjoy the deafening roar of wind in their ears. In “The Tragedy Of Macbeth” by William Shakespeare the main character Macbeth with the flaw of ambition who attempts to become king by murdering the current king. He gets more than he bargained for when he kills the king and is inadvertently pulled into the rising action of depravity. On the other hand O.J. Simpson an ex football star murdered his ex wife and
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