ella baker said this isn't about lunch counters or hamburgers. this is about democracy. james baldwin writes in 1961 that the young people who are organizer and in demonstrations all across the south at lunch counters are doing it to do more than what baldwin calls sip tasteless cups of coffee at sleazy lunch counters across the south. that is james baldwin not we. what is important when we think about stokely carmichael and the civil rights movement and where we are today in the context of american race relations and civil rights and citizenship is that kwame ture provides an example of a life well-lived. he is not a hedgefund leader. he didn't invent the i-phone. but provided millions of poor black people hope. he did it through organizing for small democracy a political revolution and calling for black power and black self-determination. the whole idea of black is beautiful is impossible without stokely carmichael. the whole idea of sell determination and black people thinking of themselves in way that that in the 1960s were profoundly impossible in some ways. that th

it was written by bernice johnson regan upon hearing ella baker speak at their funeral.in freedom cannot rest until it comes. we who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes. until the killing of black mothers' sons is as important as the killing of white mothers' sons, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes. as we think about those words today, the first thing that i must say to you in all honesty and urgency, that this is not merely about black men. this is ap assault -- an assault on the african-american community and that the discourse must be expanded to include the lives of our sisters and our mothers. black women are being killed, they are being raped. for example, melissa williams in cleveland, ohio, was riding in the car with her boyfriend, they were chased by 59 police cars who fired 137 rounds of bullets into the car. killing both of them. we have a case of a young woman in detroit, michigan, who was killed by a s.w.a.t. team who entered her house. she's 66 years old. we have 93-year-old mrs. goldie in texas who was killed by the police. thi

it was written by bernice johnson upon hearing ella baker speak at their funeral we, who believe in freedom, cannot rest until it comes. we, of believe in freedom, cannot rest until it comes. and tell the killing of black mothers science is as important as the killing of white mothers sons, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes as we think about those words today the first thing that i must say to you in all honesty and urgency, that this is not merely about black men. this is an assault on the african-american community. the discourse must be expanded to include the lives of our sisters and mothers. black women are being killed. they are being raped, for example. melissa williams in cleveland, ohio was riding in a car with her boyfriend. they were chased by 59 police cars who fired 137 rounds of bullets into the car killing both of them. we have a case of a young woman in detroit, michigan who was killed by a s.w.a.t. team who entered her house. she is six years old. a 93-year-old in texas who was killed by the police. this is a crisis that is not confined to gender. and spi