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."

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Ms.Ever's Boys

This show was absolutely amazing! It was a tear jerker. I feel bad for Nurse Ever's because she was really playing tug of war with her self. She was trying to help the boys and and do her job at the same time. I know she had so many burdens on her back. I just wish the boys could be as understanding as Ben was. I loved the set also. The whole production felt more like a movie than a play. It was so real, the emotions, the characters, the conflicts, everything. It was amazing to see what talent we have here at howard. I really enjoyed the little comedic lines they had to lighten up the show, such as the time when they were talking about how they had "obligations" to fill and giving blood would take away that "obligation". It took me a while to get used to the time period of the play. When they talked about their education and how Mr. Ben couldn't write his name. That was absolutely sad to me that at 50 years old he wasn't educated. All in all I would love to see the show again.

-Kapri Robinson
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