Era. He is popularizing that term on june 15, 1966 in greenwood, mississippi. And he becomes this icon of the late 1960s. Carmichael is going to be the most influential since malcolm acts. Is friends with Martin Luther king jr. And he also is a black panther. By 1969 he leaves the United States in west africa. And he has this organizer who changes his name to kwame ture in honor of his political mentors in africa. Kwame ture has taken them and he becomes kwame ture. Host what part of the Civil Rights Movement was he involved in . Guest is involved in all of it. And that is what is so interesting. When you think about Stokely Carmichael, hes involved in every major action between 1960 and 1965 with the whole period of civil rights cut in half. He is a demonstrator and involved in the Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and he is a freedom rider and hes arrested on june 8, 1961, and mississippi. Its been weeks and penitentiaries. He is a Howard University student activists and part of this
Black power to barack obama. One of those wonderful, unhurried, cspan book conversations, and i had never met him before, and i was so impressed, not only by his intellect, but by his ease, his humility, and his intro specifics. Intro specifics. I left thinking, im going to read all of that dudes books, from now on, whatever he writes. He is ward of waiting until the midnight hour a narrative history of back pour in america. But the book he has come to discuss today and why im sure youre all here iris stokeley a life reviewed as an insight. Biography of stokley carmichael, the man widely seep at heir apparent to Martin Luther king and malcolm x, stokley started out as a believer in nonviolence but his open experience led them to concentrate his thinking on notion of black selfdefense. Carmichael was a complex figure, and that complexity is captured wonderfully in this definitive biography, stokley, life you can never be disappoint with the book when you have chapter titles like, the ch
David brooks appeared on booknotes to talk about bobos in paradise the new upper class and how they got there. As people who combine the attitudes of the bohemian counterculture of the 1960s with the conservative 1980s attitudes regarding finance and family. This is about an hour. Cspan david brooks, were do we find a bobo in paradise . Guest bobos are spread across upscale america. If youre looking for the hunting signs of them, i suppose what you do is you look for people whove renovated their kitchen so big it looks like an aircraft hangar with plumbing. You see these big kitchens with islands in the middle of them. Theyve got a big refrigerator so bigyou know, subzero. It looks like you could fit an inlaw suite in one side of them. Theyve got the six burner, duelfuel viking ranges. So basically, bobos are across upscale america. Theyre in leftwing towns, like berkeley, california, burlington, vermont; in rightwing towns wayne, pennsylvania, where i went to high school, orange count
That toxic combination of legal segregation and secondclass status for africanamerican citizens. The brilliance offing kings nonviolent protest movement was his combination of lofty, almost utopia ideals matched to concrete political goals. King supporters marched for the right to sit at a lunch counter, to swim in a de segregated municipal pool, to pick any seat on a bus, or to attend an integrated school. That was then. This is now. Reverend king would be amazed by the transformation over the past 50 years. Today america has its first black president. I Barack Hussein obama do solemnly swear and African Americans do routinely hold top posts like secretary of state, attorney general, National Security advisor. Top corporations like merck, american express, mcdonalds and xerox have had or have now black ceos. Oprah winfrey is americas second black billionaire, following in the footsteps of publishing mogul robert l johnson. African americans are among the countrys top sports stars and
That toxic combination of legal segregation and secondclass status for africanamerican citizens. The brilliance offing kings nonviolent protest movement was his combination of lofty, almost utopia ideals matched to concrete political goals. King supporters marched for the right to sit at a lunch counter, to swim in a de segregated municipal pool, to pick any seat on a bus, or to attend an integrated school. That was then. This is now. Reverend king would be amazed by the transformation over the past 50 years. Today america has its first black president. I Barack Hussein obama do solemnly swear and African Americans do routinely hold top posts like secretary of state, attorney general, National Security advisor. Top corporations like merck, american express, mcdonalds and xerox have had or have now black ceos. Oprah winfrey is americas second black billionaire, following in the footsteps of publishing mogul robert l johnson. African americans are among the countrys top sports stars and