The 1950s was a decade characterized by the civil rights movement and its fight for inclusion within society. As the new decade started, segregation under the legal system was still considered constitutional. In 1954, segregation was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court based on their ruling on the Brown v. Board of Education case. The […]
Imagine seeing children selling cigarettes or a narcotic plant which is used by adults and young people to get high. Even worse imagine young children leaving home every day to work as prostitutes. This is happening in Somalia, located on the horn of Africa. There are many countries located in Sub-Saharan Africa that allow child […]
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Order nowGender inequality is considered among the oldest and most primitive forms of inequality represented by various country governments. It is most surprising that gender inequality still affects most parts of the world. In most governments, women are less represented in aspects including education, political decision making, healthcare, work, and even safety. In response to this […]
Americans pride ourselves on our dedication to democracy and justice. Without the radical ideas of government held by our forefathers, the United States would not be the world superpower it is today. The American government is a masterpiece to behold, except when you see its devastating impact on the state of African American communities across […]
Freedom of speech has been protected in The United States by the First Amendment since 1791. For over 100 years, this right, though symbolically important, has sat dormant. However today, freedom of speech has been in the headlines due to its involvement in controversial topics surrounding the media, political correctness, and “hate speech”. Hateful beliefs […]
“The solution to the discrimination of LGBTQ+ Youth community is going to have to be a national solution, as in a strong law from the government. The law should include equal rights to the LGBTQ+ community also protection for them while in the workforce so they can feel comfortable in their work area. Also, have […]
Ciuk (2015) noted in his research that before the attacks of 9/11, the most important value to Americans was liberty. Private security companies handled the movement of citizens around the world before 9/11 and policies varied by these companies. People were rarely detained or questioned at airports. (Finkelstein et al., 2017; Kleiner, 2010). Domestic flight […]
Child labour has effectively proved to be an outrageous frame which has been consequently underlying the massive exploitation of children by robbing their rights to an innocent childhood. At this level of thought referring to the manipulation of the children, we have a better and precise position of child labour happening in the SADC countries […]
“The issue is racial profiling and that’s something we’re going to have to deal with as a country.” Racial Profiling is defined as the use of race or ethnicity for suspecting someone of committed an offense. It is a worldwide problem that occurs every day. Racial Profiling is illegal and it violates the U.S. Constitution’s […]
On July 2nd, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy who originally had initiated the enactment of this act. The proclamation of this act, was the largest change to the Constitution since the reconstruction of the document. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 states […]
Laws are set in place to establish standards, maintain order and protect a citizen’s liberties and rights. What do you do when laws take away the rights and liberties of a group of people? The answer to this question lies in the Supreme Court case: Brown vs. Board of Education. When seven year old Linda […]
Hate crimes are crimes based on prejudice that occur when an individual targets someone else because of their race, religion, and sexual orientation or another group they may belong to. The FBI?s Civil Rights program has hate crimes as their highest priority because of the crushing impact they have on families and communities. The Bureau […]
The Civil Rights Movement took place during the 1950s and 1960s with Rosa Parks, Emmitt Tip, the SCCC and the SNCC. In Montgomery, Alabama, there was the legal court action of Brown v. Board of Education and the Green Burro Sit-in. All of these events resulted in the progress that we continue to build upon […]
At a very young age, Thurgood Marshall’s parents really emphasized how important education is and always wanted him to think and learn . This, and with his school making him memorize parts of the U.S. constitution at an early age, set him up to be the ambitious Associate Justice of the supreme court and its […]
What is change? Google defines it as “the act or instance of making or becoming different”. But what does that really mean? In layman’s term it means that whatever the subject is, it goes from being an original to becoming new, by creating many differences from the original we are changing it into something new. […]
In August of 2018 a news story was released about 11-year-old Faith Fennidy, a former student of Christ the King Elementary School in Terrytown, Louisiana. Fennidy’s story quickly went viral due to the reaction it created after it was revealed that Kennedy was asked to leave school due to her choice of hairstyle. The hairstyle […]
Issue: As a citizen do you feel that your fundamental rights that are stated in the Fourteenth Amendment have been neglected? Answer: Yes. It has been 151 years since the Fourteenth Amendment has been ratified, and the rights to life free of discrimination, the pursuit of happiness in regard to same sex marriage, and education […]
At the same time, President George W. Bush denounced private violence against Arab and Muslim people as “un-American and unlawful,” subject to hate crime investigations because “such senseless acts violate federal law.” In other words, hate crimes were “un-American” and “unlawful” in the sense that they violated the American creed of equality and fairness. Perhaps […]
However, even though Dr. Andre Perry makes a reasonable defense blaming white teachers for causing such disparities among the classroom, I disagree, for no matter the teacher’s race, in today’s modern era, people have become more accepting of one other and are more likely to judge a person by their character rather than their skin […]
On February 1, 2019, a group of female workers claimed that they had faced gender discrimination while working for the largest retailer in the world, in this class action lawsuit against Wal-mart. The complainants included are Wal-mart current employees and others who left the company from the early 2000s to the late 2000s. There were […]
The Brown v. Board of Education court cases of 1954, were some of the most vital cases of all time. Which would be best known as the case that would end segregation within schools, which then would go on to end segregation in movie theaters, restaurants, etc. These cases are when the justices ruled that […]
The impact of police brutality is more significant than individuals who have experienced racialized violence. Police brutality is a constant reminder of the historic and current devaluing of the lives of black people. Each and every incident is an indicator that the hope for justice is compact and still an issue that black people will […]
This writer believes that White law enforcement officers receive impunity because they are able to easily manipulate the criminal justice system to their liking. White law enforcement officers would most likely say that they had to defend for themselves, even though Black males were unarmed. When found guilty by the judicial system, White law enforcement […]
Brown V. Board of Education was an ideal court case whereby the choose dominated that segregation in faculties becomes unconstitutional. because the item states, “separate however equal” is what the choose and non-colored humans swear its what’s right. It all started in 1896 while the Supreme Court dominated in favor of Plessy v. Ferguson, during […]
Brown vs. The Board of Education Topeka Kansas was the name given to five separate cases (Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Briggs vs. Elliot, Davis vs. Board of Education of Prince Edward County [VA.], Bolling vs. Sharpe, and Gebhart vs. Ethel.) that were heard by the U.S. Supreme Court pertaining to the issue […]
Brown vs. Board of Education took place in 1954, during the civil rights movement and was by far one of the most important events that took place during that era. Brown v. Board of Education sparked a change in the world for equality, it fought to change the racial segregation of public schools during that […]
While African Americans were slowly gaining rights owed to them they were still being denied opportunities because of their race. The Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education would change many things for African Americans and that is something that many white segregationists feared. Brown v. Board of Education shed light on injustices […]
Children were welcome to work as a factory workers during early 1900s , due to pay cuts, long hours and lack of attention to safety, and the fact that many of these children were employed in sectors were they would be conducting tasks that usually adults would not be able to do, these children were […]
In world where law and social change have always been interconnected with one another creating these template of rules and orders on based on the evolution and growth of our society but which came first? It could be taken and viewed as a cause and effect reaction where it occurs from the aftermath influence major […]
During the mid 1950s to the late 1960s, African Americans have been striving and struggling and doing whatever they can to obtain civil rights of the same equality as white people through wanting to have the same education, getting the same job opportunities, having access to the same public facilities/transportation, and many more. In 1951, […]
