HOUSTON — Never before seen images of a young civil rights activist are on display right now at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. The display shows photographs taken by Life Magazine photographer ...

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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 ...

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A new biography traces Carmichael's evolution from civil rights activist to an early proponent of the black power movement and international human... Stokely Carmichael, A Philosopher Behind The Black ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...