The Civil Rights Movement gave African Americans many rights that would change their lives forever. Without the Civil Rights Movement our world be significantly different today because African Americans would still be segregated from the white world. Before the 1950’s African Americans held very...

Overcoming the Stereotypes in Black Television Ever since the invention of the television in 1939, African Americans have been portrayed as maids, servants or clowns. These negative perceptions started to appear in sitcoms such as in Amos and Andy, who were the stereotypical blacks that never took ...