Important Dates & Moments
In this Year, the NFL's Rooney Rule included diverse hiring practices in senior positions (i.e general managers, executives)
What is "2009"?
Black Scholar, novelist, and Philosopher who coined the term Double Consciousness in his book The Souls of Black Folks
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
This ideology emphasizes not to see race or racial groups
What is Colorblind Perspective?
MMRI: Conceptual framework that defines African American racial identity as Significance and qualitative meaning that individuals attribute to their membership within the Black racial group.
What is Muliti-Dimensional Model of Racial Identity?
This chapter's main argument states that there are racial disparities between Blacks and Whites concerning the accumulation of wealth.
What is Black Culture and Experience Chapter 5?
This Year George Zimmerman was acquitted of the murder of Trayvon Martin
What is 2012?
This Prosperity Gospel Preacher founded the Potter's House Megachurch in Dallas, TX
Who is TD Jakes?
providing an offering to the church in hope of reaping the reward of faithfulness in the future
What is Seed-Faith Giving?
SNCC: Conducted sit ins and at PWI’s to desegregate curriculum and push for increased hiring of Black faculty, and teaching of pedagogy focused on Black experience
What is the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee?
Your Professor obtained his Bachelor's degree from this institution (and include double major degree)
What is Georgetown University and English and African American Studies?
In this year, the Fair Sentencing Act changed the mandatory minimum penalties between possession of crack and cocaine sentencing which involved what huge disparity?
What is 2010?
Under this President, the U.S. justice department launched investigations against 15 police departments across the country for brutality and excessive force.
Who is Barack Obama?
Established in Terry v. Ohio in 1968 that gave law enforcement the right to stop, search, and detain someone if there was reasonable suspicion that
they were involved in a crime
What is Stop and Frisk?
COPS: Office of the U.S. Justice Department-funded Reducing Racial Profiling initiatives designed
to develop best practices and technical assistance guides to help police agencies reduce
racial profiling.
"three strikes and you're out law" required that a third offense would trigger an extreme mandatory sentence of...... Years
What is 25 years to life?
Scholars agree that The New Thought Movement was first established in this decade.
What is 1840's?
Religious Figure(s) in the early to mid 1900's that propelled the New Thought Movement in the church to give economic opportunities to back to Black communities
Who is Daddy Grace and(or) Father Divine?
Given the right to use force if you believe you
need to defend yourself or deadly force to prevent death or serious bodily harm
What is "Stand Your Ground" law?
The IASP Stands for...
What is the Institute on Assets and Social Policy?
This theory by Fordham and Ogbu argue that historical oppression and constraint have developed a collective racial identity that rejects institutions dominated by oppressive mainstream culture.
What is "Racial Identity as Risk" perspective?
This year the Central Park Five were accused of Sexual Assault
What is 1989?
These Attorneys in 2002 threatened to file a lawsuit against the NFL for their hiring practices, leading to the Rooney Rule
Who is Cyrus Mehri and(or) Johnnie Cochran
Media exposure can influence what people do in certain situations according to this theory
What is Cultivation and Agenda Setting Theory?
CSBYC: focuses on research and action in the development of Black youth from a strengths-based approach
What is the Center for the Study of Black Youth in Context?
Social Scientist James Wilson's theory that argues small crimes lead to bigger crimes
What is Broken Windows Theory?