I Am African American Stories of Experiences

I got this from a positivity email chain I'm on. It was deep to me. Check it out:

How do you react if your day doesn't go as you wish?

Well, at first you'll probably feel pain.

But what then? What do you do after the initial pain...

Today is Wed May 8, 2013. The Dow Jones closes highest ever over 15,105.12. If the Kenyan, communist, socialist, anti capitalist dictator of the USA in the white house is so terrible for america, why is the stock market doing better...

As you might already know, the term AA depicts the words African American. What I've written about here is what I believe to be a main cause of African Americans problems. It particularly pertains to African American progress and the...

This is something that I've never understood. I've been black all of my life and I've never gotten the huge distinction that people make with people of color with dark skin and light skin. I know that other races of people do it, but I...

It occurred to me sometime back I'm never conscience that I'm Black until someone brings it to my attention. And by attention I mean like a figurative baseball bat to the dome. Whether it's a wayward look, or a painfully faked smile...

The events of last week are a tragedy, everyone can agree on this, but as an African American, my sympathy for the victims is always tempered by the question: What if most of the victims were black? I really wonder if the death of black...

Hey guys. I just wanted to share my story on accepting my natural hair. So I got my first relaxer when I was in the 5th grade. It was my graduation ceremony. I longed to look like the images of celebrities that I saw on tv, being to...

It still women's history month. I will post the words of the most powerful females I can find. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjCibLwkOaw

This one of the great sister of the civil rights movement who tends to get lost behind other black leaders of that era. She was a plan spoken, unschooled woman who spoke with a loud voice.  She give her life for the right of the...

The young woman with the fourth grade education would continue migrating north until reaching the house where she would plant Jimmie’s favorite tree. She would work as a social worker and then as a teacher’s aide…….
 
Jimmie...

Our Father gave us rules and guidelines to live by in order for us to be safe while we dwell within a fallen world. Few of us loved him for it. Yet some of us (and eventually all of us) hated him by the way we lived, our actions. Even...

When your days seem dark and stormy and there is no one by your side, remember God is our comforter and He will always be by your side.

“Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of...

I'm a black teen from California. I didn't move from Africa to here or anything, but yeah. I honestly don't know how this experience entered my group. I'm not going to make true story so.........................

From the first cry, a man has a life long obligation to his child. The title of father is not conferred by biology, it is earned from the teaching, protection and nurturing a man gives his children.  It is the loving debt a man must...

Never give up or accept defeat as a final choice, when there are more options to choose. When you feel the weakest, that’s when you are the strongest in Christ Jesus. His strength is made perfect in times of weakness, therefore never...

I hate how my other black friends call me "white" or say that I am "acting white" when I get questions right in class, get good grades on test, quizzes, and homework, take pride in my work and work really, really hard to receive those...

Brother Cornel West has been one of the strongest critics of the president. My only question is: is his criticism sincere, or is this rooted in a personal bitterness he feels towards the president? 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

My first real history lessons can from this man's appearance on the Gil Noble show. Up to that point, I could not find, and did not think that there was anything worth studying in African history.  I thought once you learned about...

A decade ago, Major League baseball started honoring the players of the Negro leagues who were banded from playing in the majors. This included creating a Negro League Hall of Fame and a including the old Negro League players in the...

I like being called African   American, rather then Colored  Negro Or Black.We are many races  due to slaverly,which is unfourante to say the least...So I will say this, my experience in the usa is indeed African American ...