Media's Influence On African American Students

assume that the word “criminal” is always relative to the racial minority of African Americans. Why? When showing crime suspects, news channels, informative websites, and social media tend to stereotype the African American race as the counterpart that is always at fault. Crimes involving both the Caucasian/Whites and African American race usually favor the Caucasian/Whites side, and disregard or blame the African American race instead of analyzing the crime that has taken place. The media has influenced

Throughout the world, everyone makes remarks that may offend one’s character or race to distinguish him or her as inferior. Racism is a prominent epidemic that has especially affected African Americans in the development of America. Africans were torn away from their homes and brought to America in the 17th century to work as slaves, where they experienced various forms of chastisements and torture. Then in 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected president where he expressed his strong disposition against

that has affected African Americans, especially in the development of America. Africans were torn away from their homes and brought to America in the 17th century to work as slaves, where they experienced various forms of chastisement and torture (Siddiqui). Lincoln abolished slavery in 1863 with the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all the slaves and ending the Civil War. However, many of the freed slaves still lived in bad conditions and poverty. Whites saw African Americans as an

the 21st Century Name: Junil Patel Student Number: 1000694304 Date: April 2, 2016 Racism was a problem in the past, but does it still exist today? Do the “whites” still have an edge over the “blacks” in society? That is what I am going to argue in this paper. Specifically I will focus on the media's negative portrayal of African Americans in the 21st century in order to assert that racism still remains a vital issue within the North American society; leading to the marginalization of the

view of African American athletes. I would do this by surveying groups of classrooms, students around campus, and showing them athletes. I would show them both African American athletes and White Athletes. I would ask them how they feel about these athletes, why they feel this way about them, and what have they heard about them in the media. After collecting this data, and gathering my conclusion from it, I would like to go back and do another survey. I would go to classrooms of students and show

to be the place to pursue the “American Dream”, yet no one never said the path to that dream was going to be easy, especially if you are not white. Minorities in this country are riddled with struggle and barriers that hinder the growth of the people starting from below the bottom. As Berkman and Blunk said in their Thoughts on Class, Race and Prison, “we live in a country where large numbers of people, particularly young Afro-American, Latino and Native American women and men, have been written

CREATIVE LEADERSHIP AND PUBLIC SERVICE When North East Ohio Medical University sponsored a student led project, BetheBeautifulU was formed. Our campaign’s goal is to expose social media’s negative effect on teenage self-esteem due to its focus on Eurocentric standards of beauty. BetheBeautifulU’s purpose was to confront Cleveland's high school issues with self-esteem hidden within high school culture. We came up with numerous topics, like body positivity, but the one that was deeply anchored in

is superior” (Oxford). In the different ways that media chooses to portray knowledge to their audience is how media manipulates what their viewers see. The media falls short of telling the whole story; in addition, many times they display African Americans in a negative way. Media manipulates and pushes the agenda of the black minority, such as in the case of Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman.  Although Zimmerman was of Hispanic descent and not Caucasian, this story was widely publicized on

laws, segregated Whites from Blacks physically; economically; and mentally. Protest and acts of violence broke out in the late 1960’s and the country was in a civil rights epidemic. When protest become deadly for African Americans due to racial violence, a group of black college students came together to protest a Woolworth's lunch in another form, in silence. The silent protest ensured their message to get through to the people and create a following, due to the simplicity and type of protest it

enormous achievement in curbing its influence on most of the world’s communities. Moises Kaufman along with the Tectonic Theatre Project produced a play “The Laramie Project” between the years 2000 and 2002 [2]. Based on the murder of a student in Laramie city, the play