For this week’s theme, I choose to use the song “Freedom” by Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar. I also chose to include pictures of her performing this song at the 2016 BET Awards. Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar illustrate the black community’s everlasting cry to complete freedom within the lyrics. “Freedom, Freedom where are you? Cause I need freedom too. I…[Read more]

I chose to share a photo from blackish because it reminds of actually never going camping in my childhood. As I remember in class, my friends and I were discussing how black families in specific don’t take their children to outdoor retreats because that’s never been exposed to them. We don’t really view it as a chance to get away or as a vacation.…[Read more]

The picture I chose for this week is of the memoir Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals. This week’s topic reminded me of a book I believed I read in school before. This was about the group of black students alson known as the “Little Rock Nine” intergrating into Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas I believe after the Brown vs Board…[Read more]

I chose to share this image for this week’s theme of beyond the civil rights movement. I chose this picture because it illustrated an organized movement in support of the Travon Martin case which catapulted the BlackLivesMatter Movement. The Blacklivesmatter movement, which campaigns against excessive police brutality and advocates for the equal…[Read more]