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

Practices of Freedom and Justice

Our presenter for this week was Dr. Leslie T. Fenwick, the dean of Howard University’s School of Education. She began her presentation with a series of questions, requiring us to think on everyday topics. The one question that stood out to me was: “Which group scores higher on college entrance exams? African American males or females?” Surprisingly, according to the national data acquired from college entrance exams, black men score higher than black females. If this is true, why are black males underrepresented in the college community? Why aren’t more black males striving to be greater than they already are?

The goal of a Howard graduate is not to merely get a degree, but to transform and empower the world. To do so, we must know statistics, including the underrepresented data. In order to help our community, we must KNOW about our community. We must think about experiences in our community, and the world as a whole, and raise research questions. How can we help this? How can we change this? What must be done in order to get certain results?

Dr. Fenwick took on this challenge in her book and we should do the same.




-CarinaF. <3

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