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The Ghetto Life…What the World Looks Like When?

The ghetto life — typically poor, predominantly black neighborhoods — have become microcosms of racial tensions and social injustice. There is nearly 1.5 million Black youth in the U.S. living in areas considered “statistically high risk” for social, economic, and cultural failure. For Black youth living in urban ghettos across the country, their experience with racism is more than just an abstract concept or a history lesson—it’s their everyday reality.  It can be especially difficult to navigate this world as...

THE WHITE MAN’S WAYS

  • December 9, 2020
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History has repeatedly demonstrated the White Man’s way time and time again. What is the white man’s way, you might ask? Without a doubt, it has been throughout history. I’m the superior one, and I’ll take what you have and make it mine.  I can take your property, your freedom, or your rights as a human being. And there is nothing you can do to stop me. My way is the only way. Tell me, what makes you the superior...

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First Black Woman Aviator in America

In 1915, at 23 years old, Coleman moved to Chicago, where she lived with her brothers and worked as a manicurist. Not long after her move to Chicago, she began listening to and reading stories of World War I pilots, which sparked her interest in aviation. First Black Woman Aviator—Bessie Coleman In 1922, a time of both gender and racial discrimination, Coleman broke barriers and became the world’s first black woman to earn a pilot’s license. Because flying schools in...