Word: kwame
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There was one question I really wanted to ask the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah when I spoke to him over the phone last weekend: how do you convince the rest of us that what you do really matters...
...exceeded only by the slave trade. He was the father of the Pan-African movement and the grandfather of the civil rights and African nationalist movements of the 1950s and 1960s and the black self-determination efforts of the 1970s. Without Garvey, there would be no Black Panther Party, Kwame Nkrumah, Malcolm X or even Bob Marley. Just as the leaders and activists of the past were able to draw from Garvey’s intellectual and political heritage to improve the condition of black people, we, both black and non-black people of conscience, must also ask ourselves: What...
...Essentially, he was tired of the impersonal nature of the whole recruiting process,” said Kwame L. Osseo-Arame ’05, who worked with Saverin to create the site...
...Kwame Owusu-Kesse ’06, president of the Black Men’s Forum (BMF), noted that this year’s Black History Month events emphasize reaching out to the entire Harvard community and beyond. The BSA established a motto for the month—“Black History Is Your History”—and it was in this spirit that black student organizations have sent out mass e-mails and tacked up posters around campus to garner attention to Black History Month events, according to Owusu-Kesse...
...friends and girlfriends, musicians and onlookers, folks who were playing on the record, and folks who were just playing around. "Marley would pull ideas from those around him-the jokes, the encouragement, the wisdom of those who spoke with the natural poetic authority that many Rastafarians are known for," Kwame Dawes wrote in his study Bob Marley: Poetic Genius. Marley told a Jamaican magazine in 1978, "Well, is the people of Jamaica really make me what I am. Is them say 'go Bob'....I sing, the people applaud. Them people down here is the greatest people in the world...