Analysis Of Who First Showed Us That Black Lives Matter By Christopher Lebron

With a surplus of information floating around on the internet and printed in books, it is important to recognize whether or not the information is credible or not. Being able to properly determine whether or not a source that you may want to use is not only, correct but, credible, is important in academic, professional, and personal settings. For example, Christopher Lebron’s article, titled “ Who First Showed Us That Black Lives Matter”, should be considered a practical source for several reasons. Christopher Lebron attended Hunter College for a year after highschool, then in 2002 continued his education at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and majored in political philosophy and African American studies, and later received his

One of the ways he does this is by focusing on the recent murder of Trayvon Martin and the older murder of Emmett Till, two African-American teenagers that were villainized and accused of committing a crime that they did not commit. And talking about how their deaths were not only racially motivated, they were carried out by their white counterparts, and both deaths triggered black liberation movements. Lebron states that “Our racially lopsided incarceration rates have led the scholar Michelle Alexander to dub our period the New Jim Crow” (Lebron, NYTimes). The relentless illegal killing of blacks at the hands of individuals meant to protect them like the recent one that left 18 year old Michael Brown lying dead in the middle of the street for hours off an assumption, goes back to previous murders of other African-Americans (Lebron,

Besides his comparisons of civil rights movements and the events that triggered them, he also talks about events that happened after these movements formed like, “The Great Migration of blacks to the north, which later resulted in the creation of the Harlem Renaissance” (Lebron, NYTimes). The Harlem Renaissance was a great time for black though, art, and philosophy, which paved the way for black performers and philosophers like Lebron. Aside from the coverage of the source it is also important to ensure the place you are obtaining your source from is credible as well. This article was published on New York Times website. New York Times has an extensive history of publishing grade A academic articles. New York Times was founded in 1851 by journalist and published Henry Jarvis Raymond, and former banker George Jones. They continue to post till this day are the company is currently owned by the Ochs-Sulzberger family and Carlos