George Mason University Renewed Civil Rights Activism Discussion

I’m working on a writing report and need support to help me learn.

Reflection Essay: The past 12+ months have been quite a year. For this final essay, I want you to reflect on your year, your life and experiences, and those of your communities in from March 2020 through today.

In 2020 alone, we experienced a global health pandemic, witnessed renewed civil rights activism through the Black Lives Matters protests this summer, and participated in a history making election. 2021 has seen us inch closer together through vaccination, but has presented us with new challenges, hardships, and turmoil. Andrew Brown’s death has made Elizabeth City part of a painful national story that has been developing since 2020 (and before). All of these things have changed the way we work, go to school, and commune with each other on a day-to-day basis. For this reason, it is fitting that your final writing assignment for the semester be an essay that allows you time and space to reflect on this year (be it the past 12+ months or the past school year). This essay can be written in a traditional style or in the form of a letter (to anyone you want (including yourself), past, present, or future).

I encourage you to reflect with a long arc of African American history in mind. Over the semester, you have read and reflected about African Americans from the end of the Civil War through our current era. Much of that history has been about struggles for full access to citizenship rights and legal protections, equal opportunities for safety, economic security, education, and the franchise, rights that are supposed to be the foundation of what it means to be an American citizen. Use what you have learned to make sense of what you have experienced this year.

There is much to reflect upon. I look forward to reading your essays. I will add some personal details in order for you to have a better reflection essay