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Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Provide a link to the article here.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Racism_against_African_Americans&action=edit

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose this article because it helps me receive background information on the topic I have chose to research which is racism towards African Americans in the health care field. It matter because racism is so prevalent in society even though it has gotten better over the years. Racism towards African Americans is sometimes overlooked and it is very important to stay educated on what was happening back then. My impression of this article is that includes many specific times where African American faced uncertain circumstances.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

The lead does include an introductory sentence and paragraph that gives an overview of what the article is about. The major sections are listed in the lead which will help the reader understand if the article is beneficial for them or not. The lead is concise and provides appropriate information for the article. The article's content is relative to the article because it displays how racism has formed over the many years with many different events. The article talks about specific events such as voting rights, slavery, civil rights movement. The article also gives a timeline from 1980's to the 2000's and then 2008-current times. The information in this article is very up to date. There seems to be some sentences that minimize the experience African American's went through because it can be a lot deeper than just not having voting rights, etc. It is a very neutral tone, however racism has affected groups of people negatively so it should not be agreed with. The sources cited provide secondary reliable information to give the reader some context before moving on to the next section. Some sources are random and the author should try adding more peer reviewed articles. There are some photos added and each one of them have a caption added that correlates with the photo. All the photos are laid out on the right and left side of the screen, I think it is better to just have it on one side to have a more organized look. This article does give a timeline of events however, some of the wording can be inaccurate and mislead the reader. In terms of talk discussion, some readers did not agree with some statements because the author misinterpreted it and worded it incorrectly. So after reading this article, it seems to have a lot of information and events displayed about racism towards African Americans. Some sections were poorly written because there are details left out and misunderstood. If the article is reevaluated in some areas, it can be a well developed article.