Tag: civil rights movement

There are few alternatives to reading compelling literary accounts to understand how the U.S. in 2023 has reached this point.

The government’s ineffective measures have allowed the number of African Americans killed by the police in the U.S. to increase rather than decrease in the two years since the Floyd case.

He knew that his Oscar win wouldn’t suddenly open doors for others and became a formidable force for a generation.

' Sir, with Love,' 'Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner' – Poitier’s roles in those films mirrored my own experiences.

Under neo-liberal capitalism the racist and white supremacist ruling class still globally sustain black servitude which has remained economically and socially beneficial with its numerous racial privileges.

Today, more than 50 years after Malcolm X’s assassination, the destiny of Black Americans remains divided between the two dreams of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.

The gravity of what is happening in Venezuela, the almost nullified guarantee of respect for the most basic of rights of human beings as life itself, reminds me of the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S.

We have lost one of those figures who personifies what it means to be American.