Kwame Ture (aka Stokely Carmichael)

"Kwame Ture was born Stokely Carmichael on June 29, 1941 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, the son of Adolphus and Mabel Carmichael. He immigrated to the United States in 1952 with his family and settled in New York, New York. He graduated from the academically elite Bronx High School of Science in 1960 and made the decision to attend Howard University. Howard University conferred on him a Bachelor of Science Degree in Philosophy in 1964. It was while in Washington that Stokely became deeply involved in the "Freedom Rides," "Sit-Ins," and other demonstrations to challenge segregation in American society.......

While residing in Africa, Stokely Carmichael changed his name to "Kwame Ture" to honor Kwame Nkrumah, who led Ghana to independence from Britain, and, Sekou Toure, who was President of Guinea and his mentor. For more than 30 years, Ture led the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party and devoted the rest of his life to Pan Africanism, a movement to uproot the inequities of racism for people of African descent and to develop an economic and cultural coalition among the African Diaspora......

In 1998, at the age of 57, Kwame Ture died from complications of prostate cancer. To the end he answered the telephone, "ready for the revolution."
Saturday, May 8
Howard University Commencement 1999


It is our duty as students here at Howard University to continue the legacy of Kwame Ture through attaining higher education and using our knowledge to make a positive change not only in "Black America", but throughout the world--to always be "ready for the revolution."

Saturday, August 27, 2011

New Beginnings

Here is a little bit about my self. First, my name is Kapri Robinson. I was born in Champaign, Illinois, raised in Maryland and Georgia. I am and always have been an open person and I get along with almost everyone. To give a percentage I get along with about 99.9% of people I meet. My open and joyous character help me to meet four wonderful people who, at the time, were students of Howard University. Until this day i am still in contact with all of them.
These four individuals had such a great demeanor and were very classy. They all had a definite character. They were all confident in who they were and they always talked about Howard University so highly. These four were a huge influence on my choice in Howard University. Although I met them at a fairly young age they impacted my life in a gigantic way. I wanted to become my own person and have such a definite character as these four did. I felt as though Howard help them to do that and I wanted Howard to help me find my character also.
So now here I am. I have to say Howard is everything i thought it would be and more. The people here are so open and helpful. Every student here knows how to have fun but they also have their priorities right. All of the upperclassmen I have encountered always says to put studies first and that is the way to succeed. My first week of Howard was great and I have big hopes that it will just get better, more challenging, yet better.
I believe Freshmen seminar is going to open my eyes to many things. Honestly I was a bit confused on why we had to have a class like such, but I am going to look at the brighter side and try to enjoy myself as much as I can in that class. One of the seminars, "Omoluabi", i trust will be the most interesting and helpful to me. Because I am here at Howard University to find and define my character that lecture looks the most appealing. The lecture is meant to help me understand myself my responsibilities qualities of a good character.
Freshmen seminar shall be beneficial to me and other freshmen. We come to college for knowledge, correct? So the more knowledge the better. Freshmen seminar seems as though it is there to help us get started becoming our own person as educated individuals.
- Kapri R.
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