For this week’s photo share, I chose the song “Chains” by Usher featuring Nas and Bibi Bourelly. In this song, Usher addresses the topic of police brutality and its effects on present day society. He sings, “You act like the change, tryna throw me in change, Don’t act like you’re saving us, it’s still the same Man don’t act like I made it up. You…[Read more]

For this week’s photo share, I wanted to share a screenshot of a video showing one of the many instances where the police were called on black people for illogical reasons. Five black women were playing golf at the Grandview Golf Club in Dover, Pennsylvania when the cops were called on them by the management team because they were playing too…[Read more]

This past week we talked about native exclusion and the creation of “America’s Best Idea” (national parks). For this week’s photo share I wanted to show a portrait of Chief Joseph who, in 1877, led the Nez Perce into a battle against the United States Army over tribal rights to Yellowstone National Park. Land that originally belonged to the native…[Read more]

This past week we talked about mass incarceration and the so-called “War on Drugs”. There is a large majority of Black and Hispanic males in prison for drug charges even though there is an equal proportion of White males using illicit drugs. According to the NAACP, Black men are incarcerated 6 times than that of Whites for drug charges which is a…[Read more]

The photos below shows how even in the 21st century, many years after the Brown v. Board ruling,  segregation is still active in our education system. There isn’t a high percentage of black students in schools that are predominantly white and according to the article I read, “In 2011, only 23% of black students attended a majority white school -…[Read more]

I chose this photo as a representation of segregation in schools. The Brown v. Board of Education case in 1954 ruled that racially segregated schools was unconstitutional but that did not mean that schools were to become integrated immediately and all state governments would listen. This photo shows how the plan to integrate brought about…[Read more]

Below is an image of an ad that was placed in a 1962 newspaper article. This ad was shown as an example of blockbusting. It brought about fear to white homeowners that their all white neighborhood would not be purely white anymore. Whites were afraid that if one black family moved into their neighborhood, many more black families would be able to…[Read more]

This past week, we discussed the ideas of race and space and how there have been spatial projects/plannings against people of color. The image below is what is known as the “Wailing Wall” or “Segregation Wall” in Detroit. This wall was built in the 1940s to separate the black side of town from the white side. This was a time where racism and…[Read more]