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Dr. King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is an evocative discussion of struggle and perseverance to find justice. Dr. King in the letter identifies that he is in Birmingham because of injustice (King, 1). The injustice he equates to as being similar to Paul’s travels from Taurus to Macedonia, because there...
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Introduction LeBron James is a famous basketball player known globally and has won multiple prizes and trophies individually and collectively as the team. Despite his ever fame, money and influence, James has done very well regarding giving back to the community through his LeBron James Family Foundation. The work of...
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Black Lives Matter refers to a movement rather than an organization which began in the United States and rapidly became prominent due to the hashtag and viral social media posts. The national rise in the movement stemmed from the acquittal of the murderer of Trayvon Martin in 2013 (Leach & Allen,...
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The article in question highlights the recent explosion of the human rights organization, “Black Lives Matter.” As the article illustrates, it came to fruition as a sort of Twitter hashtag but quickly spread and gained momentum across the nation. One of the many undertakings of the movement has been to...
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Officer Stephen Rankin was called to a Walmart in Portsmouth, Virginia, at 7:30 am on April 22, 2015. A young black man named William Chapman was accused of shoplifting. The suspect was in the parking lot of the Walmart when Officer Rankin approached him. According to witnesses, the two men...
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In 2015, the online British news publication The Guardian reported that the number of deaths caused by police averaged three per day and were projected to exceed 1000 by the end of the year (Wong). The fact that upwards to 90 or so individuals have died over a one-month period,...
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