BY WALTER OPINDE On this day, 29th June, 1941, a prominent figure in the Civil Rights Movement and the global Pan-African movement, Stokely Carmichael, was born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. He moved to New York when he was 11 years of age, and joined his parents, who had settled there 9 years earlier. Carmichael attended the elite Bronx High […]

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