I volunteered at the activity center for my service learning project. My duties included monitoring the children in the after-school program, playing with them, and helping them with their homework. I really enjoyed interacting with African American people and culture. I learned a lot from the African American population I worked with. I learned how the activity center staff teach the children after school about good manners and behavior. I mentioned in one of my service-learning journals that the staff was very strict and treated the children like prisoners, but I realized that maybe that was how they taught discipline to children. I had the opportunity to meet all the children at the Activity Center and interact with them. They were children like other children. Sure, they're kids and sometimes they misbehaved, but overall they were really great kids. I noticed that most of the boys wanted to be more independent of them, but they were such nice kids. The activity center has been around since 1955, founded during the civil rights movement. I learned that the Activity Center has been dedicated to helping families for many years. Corey, one of the volunteers I met there, went to the activity center when he was a child. The statement on the activity center says: “For decades, the community center has served neighboring families, youth, seniors and the Lincoln community with inclusive “social, cultural, educational, employment and of well-being”. The community center has been a refuge for many African American families who have needed financial support over the years. The social problems that affected the African American race are in the past of their descendants. African Americans, like... middle of paper ...... and the lottery anytime soon, but I know that inspirational words can mean more than a million dollars. I really think having the service learning project in the Unity and Diversity class is awesome. In class we talked about minorities and disadvantaged groups, and volunteering in minority places has everything to do with our class. Suggestions I have for revising the requirements for the service learning component in a future course would be to require more theories and concepts in our articles. I think you should demand more language in our journals, so that we examine our books and notes more. Other than adding additional concepts to the article, I don't think anything else should be changed. Works Cited Healey, J.F. (2011). Race, ethnicity, gender and class: the sociology of group and change (5th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.