Essays on Activism

An creative response to the Black power movement, which dominated the years between 1960 and 1970, is the Black aesthetic movement. The Black Arts movement, which gave rise to the idea of the Black aesthetic, was described as the most contentious movement in the growth of African American writing and...

The Green Economy and the Green Movement The green economy and the green movement are closely linked. The development of goals or the development of an economy that contributes to lowering environmental hazards is what is referred to as the "green economy." There is a movement known as the "green economy"...

Environmental activism has been broadly adopted by social media consumers, both wholeheartedly and quickly. This platform has effectively been adopted with the benefit of environmental movements in order to engage people with common interests on significant environmental problems afflicting our world, such as climate change. Social media also offers necessary...

The Lack of Proper Care in Older Homes The most critical social issue in Springfield is the lack of proper care in older homes. The majority of poorly maintained homes have old and rusty appliances, leaky roofs, poorly ventilated rooms, inadequate ventilation, rotten wood, crumbled bricks, and flaked-off plaster, all of...

When addressing human rights activists One cannot forget Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was one of the most influential human rights activists in the United States of America during the 1950s and 1960s. Martin Luther King died while attempting to better the living conditions of African Americans. Because of his...

Malcolm Gladwell distinguishes clearly between conventional civil rights protests and modern protests. In the post, Minor Change: Why the Revolution can not be tweeted, Gladwell claims that conventional advocacy requires personal sacrifice, dedication, and a successful hierarchy of leadership. He believes that social media will improve creativity, connect people together...

The conversation on rape culture in America today has never been more tense than ever. Recent harassment and abuse cases involving top celebrities have fueled an ever more raging controversy, pitting activists, feminists and concerned people against each other. More pitiful is the fact that the Internet and social media...

Rosa Parks: A Civil Rights Pioneer Rosa Parks was a civil rights pioneer best known for her refusal to give up her seat on an Alabama bus for a white man in 1955, which helped to kickstart the civil rights movement. She was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on February 4, 1913....

Introduction Before the adoption of the letter X to signify the lack of his African tribal identity, Malcolm X was known as Malcolm Little. He was born in 1925 in Nebraska, and his political activity started with his conversion to Islam. Learning to Read was based on interviews gathered shortly before...