In this video, Ture analyzes not only the necessity of the conscious to make the unconscious ‘consciously rebellious’, he distinguishes between a mobilizer and an organizer.
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79th Birthday of Brother and Comrade Kwame Ture
All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (AAPRP) The more you love the People, the more you work for the People; the more you work for the People, the more you want to know the People; the more you study and know the People, the more you love the People; the more you love the People, the harder…
Kwame Ture: The Pitfalls of Liberalism
Excerpt – Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan Africanism, 1969 Whenever one writes about a problem in the United States, especially concerning the racial atmosphere, the problem written about is usually black people, that they are either extremist, irresponsible, or ideologically naive. What we want to do here is to talk about white society,…
Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture): From Black Power to Pan-Africanism
Whittier College, Whittier, California – March 22, 1971 Stokely Carmichael was the controversial and charismatic young civil rights leader who, in 1966, popularized the phrase “black power.” Carmichael was a leading force in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), working in the Deep South to organize African American voters. In the process he was beaten…
Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)
Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) Stokely Carmichael By any measure, Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) fundamentally altered the course of history. Published at the fifth anniversary of Carmichael’s death, this long-awaited autobiography fills a yawning gap in the American historical record as it chronicles the legendary civil rights leader’s…
Kwame Ture: The FBI and CIA
One of Kwames Best Lectures: Kwame Toure’ Delivers a Very Powerful Focus analysis on the FBI CIA & Revolutionary Struggle…
Black Power: Kwame Ture and Charles Hamilton
Black Power: Kwame Ture and Charles Hamilton Black Power: The Politics of Liberation is a 1967 book co-authored by Stokely Carmichael and political scientist Charles V. Hamilton. The work defines Black Power, presents insights into the roots of racism in the United States and suggests a means of reforming the traditional political process for the…
Kwame Ture: Pan-Africanism, Revolution and Culture
Today is the 20th anniversary of physical disappearance of one of the most serious Pan Africanist organizers of the 20th century-Kwame Ture. He took the name of his political fathers Presidents Kwame Nkrumah and Ahmed Sekou Toure and vowed to help continue the work of the African Revolution by expanding Pan Africanism! Today he is…
“Hell No!”: Stokely Carmichael Twenty Years On
Ron Augustin In the U.S., Stokely Carmichael has been known for his extraordinary rhetorical skills at the time that the Civil Rights movement was in full swing. Often compared to Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr, people considered him an oratorical genius, who knew how to interact with different audiences and adapt his discourse…
Stokely Carmichael, Black Power and the Age of Political Repression
Abayomi Azikiwe Author’s Note: Stokely Carmichael (1941-1998) changed his name to Kwame Ture during the late 1970s after living in Guinea-Conakry in West Africa for a decade. The name was adopted as a testament to his work with and admiration of the former president of Ghana and co-president of Guinea-Conakry, Kwame Nkrumah and Ahmed Sekou…