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No Church In The Wild (by KanyeWestVEVO)

Keep Calm and stay natural & beatiful 

Keep Calm and stay natural & beatiful 

auntada: Gordon Parks on the location during the filming of The Learning Tree, Fort Scott, Kansas, 1968 Norman E. Tanis, photographer Leonard H. Axe Library, The Gordon Parks Collection

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Gordon Parks on the location during the filming of The Learning Tree, Fort Scott, Kansas, 1968

Norman E. Tanis, photographer

Leonard H. Axe Library, The Gordon Parks Collection

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auntada: Stokely Carmichael, a.k.a Kwame Ture, speaking to students at Kent State University in 1970. Ernie Mastroianni, photographer. Stokely Carmichael was a U.S. activist who in the 1960s made the “black power” slogan a rallying cry among young African Americans. Born in Trinidad on June 29, 1941, Carmichael immigrated to New York City in 1952. While attending Howard University, he joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and was jailed while traveling with the Freedom Riders. He spent 49 days incarcerated at the infamous Parchman Farm in Mississippi. Carmichael moved away from Martin Luther King, Jr.’s pacifist approach to self-defense. During the mid-1960s, Carmichael delivered a series of speeches that advocated black pride, unity and independence. His message engaged African Americans who were frustrated with the pace of progress and repeated acts of violence against them. SNCC cut ties with Carmichael in 1967. He joined the Black Panthers but soon distanced himself from the organization after a disagreement with Huey Newton over forming alliances white activists. Carmichael held that that the Party should remain separate and independent from white radicals. In 1969, Carmichael left the United States, renouncing his membership in the Black Panther Party and the Panthers in general. He moved to Guinea-Conakry with his first wife, South African singer and activist Miriam Makeba. Carmichael became an aide to Guinean prime minister Sékou Touré and the student of exiled Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah.  Makeba was appointed Guinea’s official delegate to the United Nations. Carmichael eventually changed his name to Kwame Ture to honor Nkrumah and Touré, who had become his patrons. He continued to travel internationally, write, and speak out in support of Pan-Africanism. Although he made frequent trips to the U.S., he remained a permanent resident of Guinea. Stokely Carmichael died of cancer on November 15, 1998. From the late 1970s until the day he died, he answered his phone by announcing “Ready for the revolution!”

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Stokely Carmichael, a.k.a Kwame Ture, speaking to students at Kent State University in 1970. Ernie Mastroianni, photographer.

Stokely Carmichael was a U.S. activist who in the 1960s made the “black power” slogan a rallying cry among young African Americans. Born in Trinidad on June 29, 1941, Carmichael immigrated to New York City in 1952. While attending Howard University, he joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and was jailed while traveling with the Freedom Riders. He spent 49 days incarcerated at the infamous Parchman Farm in Mississippi.

Carmichael moved away from Martin Luther King, Jr.’s pacifist approach to self-defense. During the mid-1960s, Carmichael delivered a series of speeches that advocated black pride, unity and independence. His message engaged African Americans who were frustrated with the pace of progress and repeated acts of violence against them.

SNCC cut ties with Carmichael in 1967. He joined the Black Panthers but soon distanced himself from the organization after a disagreement with Huey Newton over forming alliances white activists. Carmichael held that that the Party should remain separate and independent from white radicals.

In 1969, Carmichael left the United States, renouncing his membership in the Black Panther Party and the Panthers in general. He moved to Guinea-Conakry with his first wife, South African singer and activist Miriam Makeba. Carmichael became an aide to Guinean prime minister Sékou Touré and the student of exiled Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah.  Makeba was appointed Guinea’s official delegate to the United Nations.

Carmichael eventually changed his name to Kwame Ture to honor Nkrumah and Touré, who had become his patrons. He continued to travel internationally, write, and speak out in support of Pan-Africanism. Although he made frequent trips to the U.S., he remained a permanent resident of Guinea.

Stokely Carmichael died of cancer on November 15, 1998. From the late 1970s until the day he died, he answered his phone by announcing “Ready for the revolution!”

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retrocollegekid: Afro-Derek Sullivan

retrocollegekid:

Afro-Derek Sullivan

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They laughed at your clothes; and made you change your clothes, they laughed at your names; and made you change your names; but most importantly they laughed at your God; and made you change your God.” - John Henrik Clarke

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