Understanding the Black Power Movement

We must always question the real intention of the black studies academic because it same to have some negative aspects as well. For years’ students, fought for the programs that introduce their history and culture to the predominantly white academic. Those departments were to introduce the black students to a history that not only talk about slavery, but introduce them to a history that talks about inspirational leaders and founder who fought to educate themselves. But we can place doubts within the program because we have to question whether if they didn’t demand or fought for the rights of education, would there be a Black Studies department?

BlackLivesMatter is a movement that has a goal to "see a country where all lives are dealt with equal measure, given the same benefits, held to the same laws" (Damiani, 2016). The term BlackLivesMatter was created after Trayvon Martin was murdered by Police in Florida in 2013 (rightsidenews). The term started off as a twitter hashtag and turned into a movement after becoming nationally recognized. It was created by three people named Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi (rightsidenews). Not long after BlackLivesMatter became such a huge movement a counter movement was created. It is called AllLivesMatter. This is a very controversial movement because people were offended that other people were saying BlackLivesMatter. The goal behind

The first photo shown is of protester Leisha Evans being detained by law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge July 09, 2016. Those who were around in the 1960's and 1970's the image immediately harkens back to the photos of the killings at Kent State in 1970 and the protests in Tiananmen square in China.

1963- 1968 saw a profound shift in black political thought and activism, it is a radical shift for black seeking to fight against racial oppression, establishment of black politic, and the improvement of black economy. Blacks had been through many oppressions from the whites. They were treated as the second class citizens even though they were also American. Those oppressions were mostly formed from the racism matter. With no longer endure to the oppression, a big wave of the black’s political thought and activism created a big change in black community and American society as a whole. There were two events that we could see the shift in black political thought and activism; they were the black civil right movement and the campaign against war in Vietnam. From these two events, we were able to analyze the black’s evolution in making their lives better and finding themselves a place to stand and a voice to be heard in a white dominant society.

Black Studies should promote the worldview and culture of the African people and their descendants, attributing to students’ comprehension of the subject matter and how the field relentlessly develops over time but maintains its prestige. Students throughout history have expressed the necessity of Black Studies being an outlet for “the political need for turf and place, the psychological need for identity, and the academic need for recognition” (Huggins, 1985, p. 327). In order to stress the importance, Black Studies in modern higher education should not be taught using conventional methods but instead through an African-Centered Worldview. Furthermore, Black Studies should reflect the Kemetic culture, as well as its philosophy as it relates

How accurate is it to say that the growth of Black Power was the most important factor in the weakening of the civil rights movement in the 1960s?

What exactly is this #BlackLivesMatter movement? It is a movement that was created by Alicia Garza, with Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi in 2012 after the murder of 17 year old Trayvon Martin by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman who was later acquitted of all charges, where with this trial we saw an innocent unarmed 17 year kid be tried and blamed for his own murder on a national platform rather than the justice that was so needed. (blacklivesmatter.com, n.d) This movement is working for the validity and affirmation of the Black life (Black queers, and those who identify as transgender and none gender conforming, those who are disabled, undocumented; and those with criminal records) by rebuilding the Black liberation movement. This movement

When faced with political adversity, women and black people in the United States of America are often consoled with this phrase: be patient. Eventually things will change, and time will erase the adversity that they face. This is often said as a way to restrain others from taking action and working to create change. Those who say this phrase to women and black people fail to acknowledge the change that came from the work that the people of the black and women’s liberation movements over time. Martin Luther King Jr.’s quote serves as a response to that common phrase, as well as a reminder to those who strive to make change to continue their efforts, because if they didn’t, then time would overall perpetuate the status quo.

African American writer Margaret Walker (1997) once stated, “Handicapped as we have been by a racist system of dehumanizing slavery and segregation, our American history of nearly five hundred years reveals that our cultural and spiritual gifts brought from our African past are still intact,” (On Being Female, Black, and Free; Essays). What is she trying to say? Here, Margaret is essentially saying that even in the face of such great adversity, African Americans have never deserted hope in their battle for justice. For half a millennium, blacks had been subject to laboring day after day in the southern heat, and even once they escaped that reality, they were still not admitted into society as fellow man. What is most impressive to me is, how

On October 15th, 1966, in Oakland, California, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded The Black Panther Party. It was initially called The Black Panther Party of Self Defence, as its founders strongly believed that this black power movement was a vehicle by which the black race could exercise racial dignity and self-reliance.

The Black Power Movement took place during the 1950’s into the early 60’s. The point of the movement was to achieve civil rights for African Americans. Martin Luther King was a major influence during the early stages of the movement. Many people turned to the Black Panthers, founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, because they felt that nonviolence was not the answer to achieving civil rights. The Black Power Movement unsuccessfully tried to change the economic and social inequalities of blacks, because today many blacks are still treated socially and economically inferior to whites.

The fight for equality is the war that has lasted for decades through the American history. The war has been fought by multiple ethnicities throughout history. The war created by African Power movement was slightly different; the fight was not only to have equal opportunities and rights as other citizens but also to attain the American dream. While the United States of America faced civils wars many years ago as a storm brewed that led to the emergence of the black movement that shocks the world by advocating for the black rights. The Black Power movement was simply a political movement that was formed in the 1960s with the intention of expressing some form of racial consciousness among all the black people in the United States. The “Black Power” slogan was symbolic in nature; some people viewed it as the threat with the intention of quelling the black power movement while others viewed it as a motto that could empower the black population (Allen, Boehm, Lewis, & Baker, 2004).

Today, there are many movements that are going on due to unfair ways of oppression. Oppression can be defined as “tyranny by a ruling group to the injustice some suffer due to everyday practices of a society” (Campón and Carter 2015: 497). I chose to write about the Black Power Movement because of the recent cases of oppression that have been occurring in the United States of America. Oppression can happen to people of all races, ethnicities, and sexual orientations. The black power movement cannot be placed into a box of confinement, it much more that one movement. Since the 1960s there have been many things like small protests and movements that have contributed to the black power movement over time. There have been

Due to the lack of a definitive definition of the term “black power” whites interpreted it as an “expression a new racism” (Rustin 430). In contrast, blacks thought of “black power” as a signal to whites that blacks would not tolerate the treatment that they had received. The Black Power movement created tension in which Rustin believed the movement “diverts the (civil rights) from a meaningful debate over strategy and tactics, it isolates the Negro community, and it encourages the growth of anti-Negro forces” (Rustin 430). Thus, this tension would prohibit the progression of the civil rights movement.

To begin with, it is possible to analyze the Black Power Movement and the “Everyday Use” characters representing this movement. “The Black Power Movement” was founded and led by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, and it gave birth to the famous Black Panther Party. The black power movement was created to obtain equality for all the American citizens that were discriminated and labeled as pertaining to the “black race”. Although the movement aimed for the same social changes, the black power movement was in contraposition to the Martin Luther King’s non-violent movement. In “Everyday Use” the characters of Dee and her boyfriend Hakim-a-barber represent a certain segment of the US society of the 60s. They can be thus identified in this movement