In today’s world, many people may question why HBCUs are still necessary; blacks today can go to any school they want this day and age. While this is true, I feel that there is a certain level of formation offered at HBCUs that schools like Boston College simply can not provide. Most HBCUs were founded…
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B**ch Get Up: Degradation or Appreciation in Curren$y and Juvenile’s song? (Pop Up Challenge)
In 2013, New Orleans rap legend Curren$y, aka Spitta, released his beloved album New Jet City. One of the most prominent songs on the album was a song titled “Bitch Get Up”, which features another NOLA rap legend, Juvenile. Towards the beginning of the song Curren$y raps some lyrics that may seem to be horribly…
Space Traders: Literature and Film
Question 1: One topic that many African Americans discuss on the daily can be summed up in one question; “Are we really welcomed here in America?”. Obviously, they were forcibly brought to America and had to fight to achieve the rights they have today. However, many still question what would happen should the government completely…
“Spoiled” in The Souls of Black Folk
In Chapter 13 of W.E.B. Dubois’s The Souls of Black Folk, the Narrator introduces the reader to John Jones, a young black man from Altamaha, Georgia, who pursues an education at the Wells Institute in Johnstown. While black residents of the town praise him for his seeking of knowledge, white residents feel that the education…
How Finance and Scripture Manipulate Blacks in Brown’s Narrative
In its existence, American chattel slavery was a very flexible institution whose image and form changed with each person who continued the institution. Each master, overseer, and proponent of the institution of slavery had his own ways of keeping black slaves in bondage. One tool that was used was religion. Religion, as seen in Narrative…
Black Women as the Gentry
Beyonce’s “Formation” music video highlights both Mastery of Form and Deformation of Mastery through a particular scene involving six black women sitting in a parlor. Mastery of Form is a form that is disguised and can allow a person or group of people to blend in in certain circumstances in a way that does not…
Black Matter 