Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Crime in the Media Fall 2020

https://www.netflix.com/watch/70267488?trackId=14170286&tctx=2%2C0%2C4681b394-33c3-49cc-b48e-0af1cf65e701-93327793%2C8daa9611-ceb7-402b-b32a-0d4d17c151ca_60737154X3XX1607298576555%2C8daa9611-ceb7-402b-b32a-0d4d17c151ca_ROOT%2C The film I decided to write about is the movie called Fruitvale Station. This movie is about a 22-year-old black man named Oscar Grant, who is trying to get his life together for the sake of his girlfriend and for his daughter. The movie reveals the last moments of Oscar’s life, where he went […]

Cole Montgomery CRIM -410 Professor Engstrom December 1, 2020 We Need Police Reform (Policing the Police Documentary). The PBS documentary, Policing the Police, was a thoroughly informative video that shows the importance and need for police reform all across the United States of America.  Race and crime are very significant.  If you commit a crime […]

On October 18, 2016, Seven Seconds, A Netflix series created by Veena Sud and Gavin O’Conner and produced by Johnathan Filley, Shana Fishcer Huber focused on a story about the injustice of a 15-year-old African American male by the name of Brenton Bulter who has died in a hit-in-run.  The series starts off with, Peter […]

The media I chose to look at for racial disparity was two different TED Talks. One of them was by Michelle Alexander who focused on how discrimination never really went away, it was merely altered so that those it focused on were criminals. She compares the criminal justice system to a newer version of Jim […]

The Trials of Darryl Hunt For my third and final media blog post I decided to watch the 2006 documentary titled “The Trials of Darryl Hunt”. Basically, this documentary is about a brutal rape and murder that a man named Darryl Hunt was wrongfully arrested and convicted of which caused him to spend over twenty […]

For today’s generation race and crime is a common topic to discuss. For many years African Americans have been the least dominant race when compared to other races. African Americans, for centuries, have endured inequality that has caused black people to feel less welcomed in today’s society. Dating back to the Civil Rights Movement, African […]

  Say Her Name? : A Different Understanding of the Breonna Taylor Case Aaron Hoda Indiana University of Pennsylvania   As we all know by now, Breonna Taylor was a African American woman who was tragically caught in the crossfire in a shootout with police and her boyfriend. If you are like me you might […]

You Need to Trust Police Officers :  Defunding The Police Won’t Fix The Problem.  Aaron Hoda  Indiana University of Pennsylvania    Police officers are the most controversial topic in today’s culture as well as the police brutality that may be present. However, I will explain how police can build better trust in the community as […]

The source of media that I chose to examine was Oprah Winfrey Presents: When They See Us Now. In this interview, Oprah talks to the men behind the Central Park Five case. The Central Park Five are five men who were falsely accused of the rape and assault of a jogger in Central Park and […]

The Media that I have chosen for the series was When They See Us. Which was about the central park five boys, and their names were Kevin Richardson 14, Korey wise 16, Raymond Santana 14, Yusef Salaam 15, Antron McCray 15. They were all falsely accused of rape and attempted murder of a woman that […]