Blaxploitation: Empowering or Destructive?
It’s 1971. You drive up to the movie theater in your ’69 Ford Mustang. You look up at the Marquee and you make sure Shaft is on the sign. You grab your ticket and make your way to your seat. You hear funky music play as the title sequence begins. You can dig it.
What comes to mind when someone mentions the word “witch” to you? Do you think wild naked women dancing around a bonfire in the middle of the woods? Devil worshippers perhaps? Those that sacrifice animals to a pantheon of Gods and…
Bombs in Paradise: The Effects of the Pearl Harbor Attack on Hawaii
Only a few short weeks away from the 77th anniversary of the attack at Pearl Harbor…
How Domestic Concerns Affected German Foreign Policy
Foreign policy is not thought to be as important as concerns closer to ones self which is…
Annie Pike is a native of Marvell, which is a small town in Phillips County Arkansas. She was born in 1931, in the small town of Big Creek not far from Marvell. Her father was a local farmer and landowner, which was not common for African…
Exploring the cause of the Draft Riots of 1863 in New York.
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