Bodega Dreams by Author: Ernesto Quiñonez might leave a reader feeling terrible. Cause right after chino got home he was hearing the news on tv about a reporter being killed by someone he knows or is close to him. An example of this is on page “So I finished my drink and switched to channel 47, hoping they would give […]


My Tio Tavo Someone in my family that passed away was my uncle who died last month. He was a kind, funny, sweet, lovely person who will be missed by many of his people he knew; not just his family, but friends and strangers as well from his area where he grew up. He was a person who was always […]

I’m Cristin Jarlin Tolentino. What’s important to know about me is that I hate drama , I love dancing , cleaning , cooking, I love shopping and also taking pics. That is why I want to become a photographer. One more thing is traveling. The ethinc and cultural heritage in my family is Dominican. This means that I have Spanish,Taino […]

The Habit of Mind, “Listening with Understanding and Empathy” is my weakness because I don’t pay attention to anyone when they are speaking face to face or even understanding what they are saying to me. I just sit back and say, “Yeah,” or “Uh-huh, okay.” They get especially mad at me If I don’t listen to the important things they […]

The funeral of Malcolm X took place in Faith Temple Church Of God in Harlem. Ossie Davis delivered the eulogy. Ossie Davis was an actor. There were thousands of people at the funeral. They came because he supported black nationalism. “Malcolm had become an Afro-American and he wanted-so desperately-that we, that all his people,would become Afro-Americans too.” Hearing this quote […]

Macario, the protagonist in “The Third Guest” by B. Traven, has a few traits that influence his relationships with others. One, he is hard working. Two,he is businesslike. Three, he is happy. These traits influence his relationships with others. We can see this in a passage from the story: Macario’s wife sees how her husband is a hard working man. […]


























I’m learning more about Stamped right now, and in particular what I’m pretty sure of is that it was really dumb of them thinking Africans are inferior because of the weather. This caught my attention because to me it is just messed up how they were trying to think “Oh, it’s just because of the weather they are acting like […]




I will say he idea that racism is largely” over or dying out over time.People of color are obsessed with race.Alleging discrimination is itself racist and divisive.Claiming discrimination is “playing the race card,” opportunistic, hypocritical demagoguery.Civil rights are a crutch for those who lack merit or drive. If we can address class inequality, racial inequity will take care of itself.Racism […]



In the Introduction and the first four chapters of Jason Reynolds’ and Ibram X. Kendi‘s book, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Kendi and Reynolds, 2020), the authors have written a book about racism, and I think this is important because many Black people today are still getting killed as opposed to other races. Learning the history of racism shows what […]






As nouns the difference between lifestyle and life. is that lifestyle is a style of living that reflects the attitudes and values of a person or group while life is the state that follows birth, and precedes death; the state of being alive and living. Reference Print this page. Author Cristin










Racism is a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human racial groups determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one’s own race is superior and has the right to dominate others or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others. Print this page. Author Cristin







Income inequality in the United States expanded from 2017 to 2018, with several heartland states among the leaders of the increase, even though several wealthy coastal states still had the most inequality overall, according to figures released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau. Print this page. Author Cristin












































































































