Whitaker examines the pivotal year in his new book, "Saying It Loud: 1966 — The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement." Whitaker notes that for years the rallying cry of the civil ...

Stokely Carmichael carge to Boston. He spoke in the streets and he was heard. He talked of hate and was loved. Everyone touched him. In practice the Carmichael philosophy is simplistic. Speaking ...

Stokely Carmichael speaks in a classroom in 1966. Credit: Photo © The Gordon Parks Foundation. In the fall of 1966, Stokely Carmichael was a 25-year-old rising star ...

It began on a hot summer night in Mississippi, with a cry from a young Black activist named Stokely Carmichael. The birth of Black Power in 1966 also saw the spread of Afros, dashikis, and the first ...

The activist Stokely Carmichael played a major role in both the civil rights movement and the Black Power movement, something that could not said about either Martin Luther King Jr., or Malcolm X.

There’s an unexpectedly personal aspect to Court Theatre’s staging of a new play about civil rights activist Stokely Carmichael. “Charlie used to be babysat by Stokely when he was a kid,” playwright ...

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Journalist Mark Whitaker says that much of what's happening in American race relations today traces back to 1966, the year the Black Panthers were... How Stokely Carmichael and the Black Panthers ...

Journalist Mark Whitaker says that much of what's happening in American race relations today traces back to 1966, the year when the Black Panthers were founded and the Black Power movement took full ...