In this article The Rockefeller Drug Laws: Origins, Impact, and Legacy In the annals of American drug policy, few statutes have been as influential or as controversial as the Rockefeller […]
Income Inequality
Income inequality for African Americans can be tied to multiple factors. Simply put, income inequality for African Americans is when income and income opportunities are less for African Americans […]
Implicit Bias
Implicit bias holds that people unconsciously apply biases and stereotypes to people. The generational biases against African Americans throughout the history of the United States still have an effect on […]
Broken Windows Policing
Broken windows policing is a practice and theory that says that when low-level crimes are curtailed, it will have an impact on a larger scale. For example, the thinking is […]
One Drop Rule
The one drop rule was the idea that even one black ancestor classified a person as black. The idea that even one drop of black blood was prevalent in social […]
Mississippi Burning Murders
The so-called Mississippi Burning Murders were the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner in June 1964. These murders were an attempt by the KKK to prevent African […]
Mass Incarceration
As a whole, the United States of America, the Land of the Free, incarcerates more citizens than the rest of the world (CNN). Of those incarcerated, black citizens are more […]
Dred Scott Decision
The Dred Scott Decision is a landmark United States Supreme Court case known as Dred Scott v. John F.A. Sandford. Dred Scott was a slave who sued in court for […]
Cross Burning
Cross burning in the United States is and has been a tactic of fear utilized by the Klu Klux Klan to intimidate the targets of their aggression; mainly African Americans […]
Lynching
Wikipedia Lynching in the United States Video The Origins of Lynching Culture in the United States Terror Lynching in America Further Reading History of Lynchings (NAACP) How white Americans used lynchings […]
Jim Crow
Jim Crow laws were laws at the state and local levels that codified discrimination against African-Americans in the United States. While popularly thought to be exclusive to the Southern region […]
Blockbusting
Blockbusting was a common real estate tactic used to convince white housing owners to sell their property cheaply by using their fear of African-Americans moving into their neighborhood and thereby […]
Black Codes
Black Codes were laws passed in the United States in order to limit freedoms, such as voting and literacy, of African-Americans. Black Codes were largely enacted in southern states, however […]
Bloody Sunday
The events of Bloody Sunday happened in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965 when a civil rights protest march was violently impeded by local law enforcement. John Lewis and Reverend Hosea […]
Abduction
WikipediaAtlantic Slave TradeZong massacre Video:Roots: The Middle Passage | History https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IJrhQE6DZkLife Aboard a Slave Ship https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmQvofAiZGA Further ReadingAnimated interactive history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade (315 years. 20,528 voyages. Millions […]