Word: kwame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Encarta Africana's 3,361 articles, you'll stumble across a series of video lectures that highlight the work's major themes. Music producer Quincy Jones and comedian Whoopi Goldberg discuss race and music; the volume's co-editors, Harvard professors Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Kwame Anthony Appiah, explain the struggle begun in 1909 by black scholar W.E.B. Du Bois to publish an encyclopedia that would chronicle black history...
...Kwame Ture was my friend for 40 years. The thing that touched me most about him was that he loved his black people. He was deeply committed to their plight and worked all his 57 years to improve conditions for African Americans. One of his greatest contributions was the 1966 wake-up call to black Americans, saying that they are "a mighty people" who can and must determine and define their own destiny. As young men, Kwame--then known as Stokely Carmichael--and I worked together in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. We honestly felt that we could topple...
...believe that Kwame was a man ahead of his time. That's why he was so impatient with those who did not share his vision. Most activists eventually hung up their swords and shields; Kwame, however, never changed. He was the fighter, the rebel, the person storming the battlements, until the end. While we will greatly miss our fallen warrior, his legacy will be eternal...
...hurts me, as it did my character, to feel that I am not embraced by my people," said Maynard. "My life, like Kwame and Kweku [the musical's main characters], is a constant striving to become closer to God because in that relationship do I find my home...
Thus being black and a young man at Harvard in 1972 was rendered extremely complex. Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) stopped by to recruit a few good revolutionary Black Power warriors. Black Students Association (BSA) meetings were long and often heated. Big "Afro" hair was important and white involvements were often privately and publicly scrutinized. In black communities across the country, Harvard was rumored to have "ruined" many black men. It was said that these promising students had been con- fused about their racial and class identity and were therefore rendered useless to the struggle for black liberation...