[SOLVED] Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X

Read my lecture, “Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X,” now available in the Content area, and the texts linked from it: “The Ballot or the Bullet,” “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” and an interview with a scholar about them. Then start a thread in the discussion forum “Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X.”  THIS IS A DISCUSSION ASSIGNMENT MINIMUM OF 2 PARAGRAPHS Lecture: Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X   I am pretty sure you are already familiar with the lives and cultural prominence of both King and Malcolm X. I also think it will be clear how activists working toward racial justice for Black people in the future are engaging in Afrofuturism.   Letter from Birmingham Jail In 1963, Rev. Dr. King was in Alabama leading protests against discriminatory laws, and he was imprisoned for it. Eight white clergymen wrote an open letter condemning King as an outside agitator, and saying this kind of unlawful protest was uncalled for. They stated that the protestors should have instead attempted negotiaton. King wrote the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” in response. It is addressed to these eight white clergymen, including one rabbi, and leaders of several different Christian congregations, but was subsequently published and made public.   Read “Letter from Birmingham Jail” here: https://swap.stanford.edu/20141218230016/http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/kingweb/popular_requests/frequentdocs/birmingham.pdf   In the “Letter,” King’s goal is to explain the role of nonviolent direct action to these men, and to a broader audience. To this end, he employs biblical imagery to address the clergymen, since he, of course, was also a clergyman. He relates personal anecdotes of suffering from discriminatory laws, and states that passively accepting unjust laws does not uphold the value of justice. He also points out that the protestors DID, in fact, attempt negotiation in a variety of ways before they felt forced to action.   The Ballot or the Bullet Almost exactly a year later, Malcolm X gave his famous speech, “The Ballot or the Bullet” to an audience of Black Americans who did not have the vote. In it he speaks against infighting, and urges Black Americans to form a unified front in going after rights regardless of small differences between ideologies. He says that rights already belong to Black Americans, and are being kept from them, and Black Americans should be able to employ whatever means necessary to take back what’s theirs.   Read “The Ballot or the Bullet” here: http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches/malcolm_x_ballot.html   (Optional: and if you want a little bit of biographical reading and to hear a snippet of what the speech sounded like, both those are available here: https://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/blackspeech/mx.html )     Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X in Combination The internet is full of “student” essays you can purchase that compare and contrast Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. I think people are used to seeing them as two ends of a spectrum of Civil Rights Era ideologies. Further, the contrast between them has been played up as an echo of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois’s differences of philosophy.   Personally, I think it makes more sense and is more fruitful to see both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. as two strong parts of a movement, less in opposition than working different areas of the same problem.   To think about this, read this synopsis of an interview with a professor who studies them, Peniel Joseph, “Black Power Scholar Illustrates How MLK And Malcolm X Influenced Each Other:”  https://www.npr.org/2020/08/12/901632573/black-power-scholar-illustrates-how-mlk-and-malcolm-x-influenced-each-other The interview itself is linked and you can listen to the whole thing if you’d like, but the part that’s assigned is the stuff that’s written on that page as “interview highlights,” in which Dr. Joseph delineates the “nuance” he sees in these historical figures. PLEASE ONLY USE THESE AS SOURCES AND NO OTHER SITES PLEASE!

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[SOLVED] Supreme Court Decisions

OYEZ Class Written Assignment-Supreme Court Decisions Assignment 1: The Dred Scott Decision In 2 written pages summarize what the case was all about. Put you name and class on the paper and the date. It needs to be double spaced, Times New Roman and font 12 Tell what the court decided and mention any important comments made by the Chief Justice and/or any other justice In your own wordstell what was important about this decision and how it affected African Americans.

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[SOLVED] Comparative Black Literature

SECTION A  1) Showing a clear understanding of diaspora, as applied in contemporary scholarship, discuss its significance for exploring the diverse reference points and complexities of Black Literatures.  SECTION B  2) Analyze, with subtle attention to their titles and thought-provoking narrative webs, the theme of loss in Yoruba Man Walking and social critique in An Incident at Pat’s Bar.  3) Discuss the significance of psychological distress, afflicted relationships and identities, especially as critical anchors, in A Bad Day for a Good Man in a Hard Job and The Shivering.  4) Analyze, teasing out political implications and authorial prerogatives, the interplay between history, imagination, nation and gender in Nineteen Thirty-Seven.

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[SOLVED] Wonders of African World

Requesting to have an essay written. Please choose one of the youtube videos. Instructions below.  Write a 250-300 word response answering the following questions: What were your main takeaways? What stood out the most to you? How will this material help you better understand Africana Studies overall? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jEHGs36KRM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an5DAPzFS6g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVM0PHDQVZo

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[SOLVED] The Study of Black Literature

DIRECTIONS: *Attempt only two questions. *Question # 1, Section A, is compulsory.  *Choose one more question from Section B  *Keep your answers clear, concise and analytical.  *Address your responses to the specific demands of each question.  *Illustrate your answers with apt references, and cite key sources used.  *Limit your responses to four, double-spaced, 12 pitch font pages per question.  *Your answer scripts must include questions chosen, your name, and be in MLA format.  QUESTIONS:  SECTION A  1) Showing a clear understanding of diaspora, as applied in contemporary scholarship, discuss its significance for exploring the diverse reference points and complexities of Black Literatures. SECTION B  2) Discuss the significance of psychological distress, afflicted relationships and identities, especially as critical anchors, in A Bad Day for a Good Man in a Hard Job and The Shivering.  3) Analyze, teasing out political implications and authorial prerogatives, the interplay between history, imagination, nation and gender in Nineteen Thirty-Seven.

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[SOLVED] Harambe

How the death of Harambe led to where we are today.

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[SOLVED] Third World Images in Film

QUESTION: Scholars of Eurocentric origin often argue that there is nothing of political, cultural, and economic significance to talk about in the Third World. They portray the Third World as the place of backwardness that never contributed anything of importance to world culture and civilization. This is especially the case with reference to Africa. Now, using this observation as your point of departure, discuss how Walter Rodney challenges these misrepresentations of the Third World with particular reference to Africa. As you compile your response, you are encouraged to make use of the documentary by Basil Davidson to complement Walter Rodney’s argument in the reading. Also, feel free to use other sources in the form of books, videos, documentaries, and articles.  SOURCES: Go through the reading by Walter Rodney (“How Africa Developed Before the coming of the Europeans up to the 15th century” in How Europe Underdeveloped Africa: Pages 51 to 114) AND watch the documentary by Basil Davidson (https://youtu.be/X75COneJ4w8)

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[SOLVED] Dubois Reading and Discussion Question

Read dubois work and answer the questions:  What do you think of DuBois’ conversation about the sorrow songs? What does he suggest that these songs tell us? Or do for American culture? How might his conversation about the Sorrow Songs fit into Marable’s framework for Black Studies? link: https://learn-us-east-1-prod-fleet01-xythos.s3.amazonaws.com/5dd6acf5e22a7/15358406?response-cache-control=private%2C%20max-age%3D21600&response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%2A%3DUTF-8%27%27DuBoisWEB_Spriritual%2520Strivings_Sorrow%2520Songs_TheSoulsOfBlackFolk%2520%25281%2529.pdf&response-content-type=application%2Fpdf&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Date=20200826T180000Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=21600&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAZH6WM4PL5SJBSTP6%2F20200826%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Signature=6400478c43a41e83c7a7d4140e98816c0b76545d7f7944d886442493075e35ec

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[SOLVED] The Creation of Hip Hop

According to the reading ( https://www.nwfolklife.org/reggae-rising-hip-hops-roots-in-reggae-music/ ) on hip hop, what Caribbean music traditions have allowed for the creation of hip hop as we know it today? Second, in the video we looked at in class (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu8HkOdn8kg), one of the commentators questioned hip hop as “a Black thing, a New York thing or a Caribbean thing” (paraphrase). What are your thoughts on this? Given the reading and the video, is hip hop a Black thing, a New York thing or a Caribbean thing? Or can it be all?

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[SOLVED] African History and Cultural Heritage

Please Read all the documents above starting with our opening lesson and use that information to answer this questions , Do not read 10 principles of Maat thats for the discussion.  Write short answers, [3-5 sentences] for each of the questions below,  A well-written short answer should identify significant themes addressed in each lesson. 1.Why is the history of African civilizations important for African Americans and other people of the African Diaspora? 2. What were some of the cultural similarities shared by the ancient civilizations in Egypt and Nubia? 3.What significant civilizations developed in West and Central Africa between 200 B.C. and 1600 A.D.? 4.Why were the racial characteristics of the Ancient Egyptians a subject of debate among Enlightenment historians and philosophers? 5. What was life like in the medieval empire of Ghana according to A.J.H. Goodwin? For the discussion   Lesson One Discussion: Life and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt 3 3 unread replies. 3 3 replies. The 10 Principles of Ma’at are simple rules for living a well-intentioned life on Earth. In some ways they analogous to the teachings of Zen Buddhism and the samurai code of bushido from Japan, but they represent a much more ancient fount of knowledge. The 42 Negative Confessions from the Papyrus of Ani have a broader application that is meant to prepare one for entrance into the afterlife. Still, their purpose is to give people a guide to living in harmony with their deities, their priests, their pharaoh, and their neighbors. Select two (2) of the Principles of Ma’at that you feel are necessary for you to live a more well-balanced life.  Select seven (7) lines from the 42 Negative Confessions that you feel can be used to maintain order and justice in a civilized society. with your choices give a brief explanation of your selections.

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