Stokely Carmichael (aka Kwame Ture; June 29, 1941 – November 15, 1998) was a Trinidadian-American black activist active in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. He rose to prominence first as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, pronounced "snick") and later as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party. Initially an integrationist, Carmichael later became affiliated with black nationalist and Pan-Africanist movements. He popularized the term "Black Power".
Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Stokely Carmichael moved to Harlem, New York City in 1952 at age eleven to rejoin his parents, who had left him with his grandmother and two aunts to immigrate when he was two. He attended the elite Tranquility School in Trinidad until his parents were able to send for him.
His mother, Mabel R. Carmichael, was a stewardess for a steamship line, and his father, Adolphus, was a carpenter who also worked as a taxi driver. The reunited Carmichael family eventually left Harlem to live in Morris Park in the East Bronx, at that time an aging Jewish and Italian neighborhood. According to a 1967 interview he gave to LIFE Magazine, he was the only black member of the Morris Park Dukes, a youth gang involved in alcohol and petty theft.
Martin Luther (help·info) (10 November 1483 – 18 February 1546) was a German monk, priest, professor of theology and iconic figure of the Protestant Reformation. He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment for sin could be purchased with money. He confronted indulgence salesman Johann Tetzel with his Ninety-Five Theses in 1517. His refusal to retract all of his writings at the demand of Pope Leo X in 1520 and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms in 1521 resulted in his excommunication by the pope and condemnation as an outlaw by the Emperor.
Luther taught that salvation is not earned by good deeds but received only as a free gift of God's grace through faith in Jesus Christ as redeemer from sin. His theology challenged the authority of the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church by teaching that the Bible is the only source of divinely revealed knowledge and opposed sacerdotalism by considering all baptized Christians to be a holy priesthood. Those who identify with Luther's teachings are called Lutherans.
Something must change... [Etwas muss sich ändern...]
On which side do you stand? [Scandinavian DVD]
Plot
Panther is a semi-historic film about the origins of The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The movie spans about 3 years (1966-68) of the Black Panther's history in Oakland. Panther also uses historical footage (B/W) to emphasize some points.
Keywords: 1960s, african-american, animal-in-title, based-on-novel, black-militant, black-power, bloody-body-of-child, dead-child, death-of-child, drugs
The People Called Them Heroes. The F.B.I. Called Them Public Enemy Number One.
From the director of "New Jack City" and "Posse"
Bobby Seale: We not anti-white, we anti-oppression! You can't fight racism with racism.
Tyrone: Uh, Alma is it? We don't...::Alma: What? I'm black ain't I, I wanna help my community right or do you think oppression ends with that thing dangling between your legs?::Tyrone: But...::Alma: But nothing! We want full-fledged membership in the Black Panther Party and none of that alright sugar as long as you play the background, rubbing my feet, getting my drink bullshit, you dig?
Bobby Seale: Brother Malcolm said we should stop sangin' and start swangin'.
Black cop: You know you can't help but admire those young Brothers, they do alot of good in their communities.::Pruitt: You ever hear about the common good, the United States of America is more than a simple collection of ghettoes, this country was built on Capitalism and Democracy, and in a Democracy, the Majority rules, we are a Minority unless we integrate, fully!::Black cop: Whose side are you on? Brother::Pruitt: No! Whose side are you on? Officer
Rodgers: [a Black FBI agent is being introduced] Gentleman, this is Pruitt, he'll be working with us from here on in.::Brimmer: But isn't he...::Pruitt: Special People for Special Problems::Brimmer: Sorry I didn't know that the FBI had...::Pruitt: Obviously there are many things that you don't know, should we just get to the point, the Black Panthers have united with other organizations sponsored by the communists to undermine our efforts in Vietnam. In the opinion of Mr. Hoover, the Black Panther Party is Public Enemy Number One. They have quite simply guaranteed their own extinction.
Nervous cop: [Panthers approach Oakland Cops beating a man outside a night club with a large crowd observing] So uh Huey, So what's your telephone number?::Huey Newton: I confirmed with you my address that's all I'm required by California law, we ain't broken no laws!::Nervous cop: Then what are you doing with that gun?::Huey Newton: Well what are you doing with yours?::Nervous cop: Let me see that rifle son!::Huey Newton: No! This is my private property! According to California Law, we have a constitutional right to bear arms!::Grove Street cop: [to Crowd intrigued by Panthers] Move Along, go about your business::Huey Newton: Wait Wait Wait, Brothers and Sisters, No, you ain't gotta go nowhere, this is your business, stay right here! The law states as long as you are standing a reasonable distance, that's eight to ten feet to be exact, you have the right to observe the police carrying out their duties, and from what I can see, you are standing twenty two feet away from this man! So Brothers ain't no law being broken!::Bobby Seale: That's right, you stay right where you are, you ain't got to go nowhere!::Nervous cop: Is that gun loaded BOY?::Huey Newton: Fish and Game law clearly states it is unlawful to carry a live round of ammunition in a chamber of a shotgun or rifle in a vehicle PIG!::Grove Street cop: [Angrily, as crowd cheers on Panthers] Refer to him as OFFICER!::Bobby Seale: Then don't you refer to him as BOY!::Nervous cop: Well, is it loaded?::Huey Newton: I'd tell you Officer it wasn't, but now it is! [Panthers cock guns and approach officers with crowd cheering]::Nervous cop: Now for the last time boy, what do those guns mean?::Huey Newton: They mean PIG that the Black Panther Party declares you try to brutalize our community, you try to take our weapons, we'll shoot you! [Police look around and then retreat to Patrol Cars as crowd cheers on Panthers]
Cy: [to White Girls looking for drugs] Every Black man you lay eyes on ain't a dope dealer