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Jalen Johnson  - Body Politics,Teyana Taylor,and the Liberation of Black Women Through Dance.

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Jalen Johnson  - Body Politics,Teyana Taylor,and the Liberation of Black Women Through Dance.

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"I didnt realize how liberating it was going to be to shed the very thing that i was so shy about ,that i was so insecure about

This is so true because most women of color are so shy and insecure of how people are going to judge them.

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Rasun McCaleb-How the news media distorts black families

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Rasun McCaleb-How the news media distorts black families

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"media outlets reinforced the idea that black families are sources of personal, cultural and societal instability — that responsibility for poverty and crime lies with them, rather than with those who shape the economic and social environment they live in."

I hate this stereotype more than any black stereotype.The stereotype that black people are criminals has gotten the most african americans killed in the previous 10 years. The whole police brutality resistance comes from this stereotype.

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Diego Acosta: 17 Struggles Of Being Mixed Race

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Diego Acosta: 17 Struggles Of Being Mixed Race

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"Other Fail to accept how you self-identify. When people discover your ethnic makeup, they somehow find it disagreeable. You're too this and too that and there are some that become angry if you don't one or another."

this a true statement because some people want one side of your ethnic. But people should not tell them to chose one side of their race.

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Kaia Weaver :Decrying Hair Rule, South African Students Demand To Be 'Naturally Who We Are'

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Kaia Weaver :Decrying Hair Rule, South African Students Demand To Be 'Naturally Who We Are'

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"Black girls at schools around the nation complained not just about hair but being referred to as "monkeys" or "kaffirs" (South Africa's rough equivalent of the N-word) or being told by teachers to stop making "funny noises" when they speak in African languages among themselves.

While black and white girls may sit together at the same schools in a way that was inconceivable under apartheid, they aren't necessarily sharing the same experience."

- I dont believe white people and black people have the same experiences being that theyre two races. Everyone goes through different battles/struggles. I feel black girls have more of a struggle just because of their race.

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Siraj Palmer:Music's Influence on Society

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Siraj Palmer:Music's Influence on Society

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“Media and popular culture play important roles in young people’s lives and must be explored as a kind of alternative ‘lived’ curriculum… young people today are using these texts to construct locally validated selves and senses of community, linked to shared notions of what it means to be black and marginalized in the United States”

The article is talking about how young African Americans use lyrics to communicate to each other.

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The everyday trauma of being a black man in America

In different ways, Lucia “Lucy” McB
ath and DeJuan Patterson are victims of gun violence. And compounding their trauma is the pernicious omnipresence of race. I met them while moderating a panel on ''
“Mom, why did that man gun down Trayvon? He wasn’t doing anything. Why did he gun him down?
This article speaks on how blacks are killed by cops. It actually names victims who has went through it like Trayvon martin, one of the first ones that caught my attention when it happened. This is when I started to think about how the world really is.

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"technology clearly is trying to trump good common sense here. What may sound like a legitimate call has to be questioned."

The article recalls swatting as a scary nuisance because there have been so many reports were people ended up in the same situation. In Maryland, police shot a man with rubber bullets, which caused broken bones and bruised lungs. And another report in Oklahoma. No matter in what situation the police are in they will always react on what they "think" is going to happen. And it always ends up being a tragic accident.

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Brooke Fraysher                                  Article - The Inconsistent Acceptance of Black Beauty 

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Brooke Fraysher                                  Article - The Inconsistent Acceptance of Black Beauty 

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The article is written from the perspective of a black woman she explain different situations and standards she has noticed. She talks about how when something is deemed bad or made fun of on a black girl you will later see white women doing the very same thing to their face that they were making fun of black women for (i.e lip injections). The quote I felt summed up the article so very well was, "Black beauty is only acceptable in certain contexts or in small doses. Keep the full lips, leave the coarse, high-maintenance hair. Cornrows are called edgy, innovative, and epic when the braids sit above an alabaster face, but are “rachet” or ghetto on a black girl. " She calls attention to how based on what race the person who has it is , it what leads for the classifying of weather its beautiful or not.

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Ken Johnson                      Article - Black America’s progress misjudged by all extremes

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Ken Johnson                      Article - Black America’s progress misjudged by all extremes

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"Much more remains to be done, of course. Recognizing past progress should not mean that the US relents in the drive to fix the problems that remain. But slowly, inexorably, American society is helping its most historically excluded group to enjoy more and more of what the country has to offer."

- This article was basically about how far blacks have came and how much they have grown. Although it's a lot much to do but they have came farther than they were.

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Tihreney: Black Women Artists Tackle The Dangerous Stereotypes That Have Never Defined Them

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Tihreney: Black Women Artists Tackle The Dangerous Stereotypes That Have Never Defined Them

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"an exhibition called “Unmasked Women” investigated the relationship between black women and mental health, specifically how the hackneyed idea of the “strong black woman” prevents women from seeking help for physical and mental maladies."

As kids we're taught to be strong and independent. We are taught to not depend on anyone and we are told that we can do everything on our own. Which Is true. We, as black women, are some of the most strong and independent women there is. But it's instilled into our mind so much that we are scared to look weak about anything. We are scared to come to anyone with our problems because we are scared that we will be viewed differently by the world. We don't want to show our weakness to the world because sympathy is something that we don't want.

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African American representation on the field does not mirror that in the classroom. Non-Hispanic whites make up 58 percent of undergraduates while black students constitute only 14 percent. According to a 2013 University of Pennsylvania study on racial inequity in NCAA Division I sports, only 2.8 percent of full-time degree-seeking undergraduates were black men. By contrast, black men comprise 57 percent of college football teams, on average.

That isn't right at all, they are using black athletes just for the sports world and not helping the get an actual education. They aren't making the go to class, they just want the to play for them and use them for their athletic ability.

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Article - How News Media Distorts Black Families.
'When the media outlets examined in the study reported stories about poor families, they chose to feature black families in their coverage 59 percent of the time, even though only 27 percent of families living below the poverty line are black. Similarly, in coverage of welfare, 60 percent of families portrayed were black, even though only 42 percent of families receiving welfare are black. This pattern was widespread across numerous sources — among the worst offenders for networks were Fox News and CNN, and the New York Times and Breitbart for national print and online news organizations."
This article is showing how the news that everybody watches uses blacks in ways that do not truly represent the country, such as more often showing them in a negative spotlight than other races.

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Article: How News Media Distorts Black Families

"Our study also found that media outlets reinforced the idea that black families are sources of personal, cultural and societal instability — that responsibility for poverty and crime lies with them, rather than with those who shape the economic and social environment they live in. On “The O’Reilly Factor,” Bill O’Reilly commented, “The root cause of poverty . . . as ‘Talking Points’ has reported over and over again, that is the dissolution of the African American traditional family.”  There is no evidence to support this claim and much evidence to debunk it."

After reading this article, it made me speechless. I don't understand how something so wrong could been seen as right to some. I don't know what to say any more.

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College Football's Big Problem With Race:
This officially “amateur” sport generates nearly $3.5 billion a year, but the young men who play the game–predominantly African American—don’t see a dime of it. Yes, they get tuition, room and board, plus lots of Nike, Adidas or Under Armour gear (making them walking advertisements), but they’re essentially free labor. We call them “student athletes,” but the athlete part always takes precedent over the student part.
Most young men don’t play football to advance social justice. They love the game; it gets them a full ride to college. A few of them–2 percent–may even go on to the sign fat NFL contracts.

After reading this it made me realize   that this is true about them being walking advertisements because when I see the Georgia football players all they have on is Nike gear but most of them like wearing things like that so that shouldn't be a problem.

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Title: How the news media distorts black families

“The root cause of poverty . . . as ‘Talking Points’ has reported over and over again, that is the dissolution of the African American traditional family.”

After reading this article it had my mind everywhere, to the point that I was asking myself is there anyone helping these families getting out of poverty. This article deals with struggles of

Black families, whether it deals with their lack of education or even starvation. I would’ve never thought that there are people in the world that depends on the weather just to have food and water. It makes me wanna just cry. Poverty is the result of poor opportunities for human beings to survive, grow and prosper. Now knowing what causes poverty and treating poverty I found out that they’re actually two different predicaments. The fact that many of these easygoing factors can be dependent on one another, there is still no easy solution of breaking the cycle of poverty.