Essays on Political Blackness

In The Red Record written by Ida. B. Wells-Barnett, she states that a common ideology amongst Americans during the 1800s was it was “a white man’s government” (Wells-Barnett 11). This method of thinking, while making heavy progress in the last 100 years or so, is…

In 1967 the Detroit riots happened as a direct result of institutionalised racism. At that time it has been recorded that of the 93% of white police officers that worked for the Detroit police department 43% of them were working in black neighborhoods but were…