Poverty among African Americans

Choose one of the below for your main post. Respond to at least one student who answered a different question from you. The answers should come from your textbook, the lectures, videos, and the research you conducted in the APUS Library. I encourage you to enhance our discussion by responding as many times as you wish. I will grade your two best responses.

1. Taking into consideration the history you have learned this term, why is poverty so persistent among African Americans?

2. Think about the Hip-Hop culture and how it has gone mainstream. What is its importance for black culture, and how is it another example of sports and the arts breaking down racial barriers? Why is it in sports and the arts that this happens and not in, for example, science or religion?

3. Examine why the civil rights movement stalled by the mid-1970s. By the end of the 1980s, how successful had it been? Were the desired freedoms won? What methods had it employed to best effect? Which strategies were most effective, and why? How did activism change? By 2000, what changes had taken place for African Americans? In this analysis, remember that African Americans are not a monolithic bloc. What divisions existed within the African American community by 2000?

4. Examine in the 1980s and later the entry of African Americans in Congress. Did it change the face of government? Did it change anything more substantially?

5. Analyze the problem of "driving while black" and the incarceration of African Americans.

6. How did Ronald Reagan's presidency change the economic reality for African Americans?