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The Civil Rights era was greatly impacted by Muhammad Ali’s resistance to westernized European social norms and protest against racial prejudice in the mid-1900s. Ali undergoes a series of changes of his identity and asserts himself as Muslim activist, using his athletic background as the foundati...

The birth and expansion of the American police can be traced to a host of contributing factors. The practice of enslavement and the control of minorities, however, were the leading causes of the formation of early policing. Slave patrols in the south, and northern constables were created to control ...

Funk music is a fundamentally crucial genre when discussing the history of Black music genres. This genre was created at a time of extreme change for the Black community in the United States. Civil rights laws were passed to give voting rights and fair housing to the newly integrated citizens. Altho...

The purpose of this research is to understand the ways in which social justice movements such as the Civil Rights Movement and Black Panther Party Movement influenced the depictions of African-American women in American cinema by examining the 1930s, 1950s, and 1970s. By examining the themes of Amer...

The purpose of this research is to uncover the experiences of queer Black girls during the first half of the twentieth century. At a time when Black people were defining, understanding, and questioning what it meant to be Black in America, I query what queer Black girlhood looked like during this ti...