Continuation of “Stokely Carmichael’s Youth – From Port of Spain to New York City”. … In 1956 Stokely Carmichael broke with the past. Being an “[...] intellectually precocious child, he [had] found American education a breeze compared with the British-based rigors he’d experienced in the Trinidadian school system”. Passing a tough entrance test he was [...]
Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael was born in Trinidad in 1941. Since his mother Mabel Florence Charles Carmichael and his father Adolphus Carmichael both left Trinidad for the United States in search of work (respectively in 1944 and 1946) the young Stokely grew up at his grandmother’s house at Port of Spain. When in 1952 his [...]
I have always been fascinated by the strategic use of language and when I stumbled upon the following passage of Joshua Meyrowitz’s “No sense of Place” I decided to dedicate my attention to Carmichael’s rhetorical style.
…And before I’d be a slave, I’d be buried in my grave. And go home to my Lord and be free.” The voice of freedom, Odetta (Holmes), will not be able to fulfil her wish to sing at Barack Obama’s presidential inauguration. The black artist passed away on Tuesday in Manhattan, NY, at age 77. [...]
The South African artist, also known as “Mama Africa”, died after suffering a heart attack last night in Castel Volturno, Italy, where she performed at an Anti-Camorra concert in support of the Italian writer and journalist Roberto Saviano. For all of those who have never heard her name, they most definitely know her song “Pata [...]
Dr.Martin Luther King’s Funeral, April 9 1968 On November 4, 2008, four decades after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jesse Jackson (wearing green in the picture above) felt that a further step had been made towards the ‘Promised Land’. Having so often seen and examined the picture above that points out one of the [...]
