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 16, 2011

We Like To PARTAYY!! =]

After much anticipation, HOMECOMING WEEK is finally here! It’s now time to play hard but work harder! As homecoming week begins, many of us may forget the reason we are here at Howard and end up missing classes/assignments because of late night partying. During this week, time management and prioritizing will be the most important aspects! I do plan to go to many of the events, but I also plan to stay on top of my academics. Last night, to kick off homecoming week, Midnight Madness was held in the renovated Burr Gymnasium. It was my first time at Midnight Madness, since I am a freshman, and it was quite interesting. I expected more but it made me even more excited for homecoming and the basketball season. As the men’s basketball coach said, we should all support our teams and Howard University should have the best home court support! As long as I can, I’ll be at all home games. =]



-CarinaF. <3

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