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Kwame Toure ( Stokely Carmichael)

..."On April 19, 1967, Stokely Carmichael spoke to an enthusiastic crowd at Garfield High School in Seattle, Washington. A leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and later the Black Panthers, Carmichael coined the phrase "Black Power". 

                                                                  --   http://courses.washington.edu/spcmu/carmichael/

"Stokely Carmichael not only stressed a return “to the roots”, but urged for a more vivid and active collaboration with the states from the African continent that had just obtained their independece. Carmichael expected this collaboration to be a kind of spark for the African-American struggle for freedom. As Stuart Towns reported, Sokely Carmichael:
                           -- http://stokely-carmichael.com/     

..."began to connect the struggle in the rural South […] with the worldwide struggle of non-white people against imperialism and colonialism".

..."Black people must do things for themselves. […] The reality of black men ruling their own natives gives blacks elsewhere a sense of possibility, of power, which they do not now have."

"Black Power"

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/211867.Black_Power


"In 1967, this revolutionary work exposed the depths of systemic racism in this country and provided a radical political framework for reform: true and lasting social change would only be accomplished through unity among African-Americans and their independence from the preexisting order. An eloquent document of the civil rights movement that remains a work of profound social relevance 25 years after it was first published."

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Jimi Hendrix ...26/29

"In his brief four-year reign as a superstar, Jimi Hendrix expanded the vocabulary of the electric rock guitar more than anyone before or since. Hendrix was a master at coaxing all manner of unforeseen sonics from his instrument, often with innovative amplification experiments that produced astral-quality feedback and roaring distortion. His frequent hurricane blasts of noise, and dazzling showmanship — he could and would play behind his back and with his teeth, and set his guitar on fire — has sometimes obscured his considerable gifts as a songwriter, singer, and master of a gamut of blues, R&B, and rock styles."

Learn more about Jimi Hendrix here: http://www.britannica.com/blackhistory/article-9039992 

and here:

http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Jimi-Hendrix-Biography/A7A657EC228634E74825695F00211AC3

Enjoy the lyrically beauty of some of his songs here: http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Jimi-Hendrix-lyrics/92CCA3EE660208174825699D0029C98E

Marvel at a performance here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE3FAY-NOiU

Fela Kuti...20/29

I was asked by the purchaser of this piece to paint it as the original photo was, spliff included...vintage Fela...I love it!


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Gordon Parks...21/29

Gordon Parks was a photographer, film director and author who got his start in fashion photography. Parks, hired by Life magazine as their first African American photographer in 1948, became known for his portrayals of ghetto life and the civil rights movement. Gordon Parks wrote "The Learning Tree", and wrote and directed the movie "Shaft."

Gordon Parks is a bad muther------...but I'm just talking about Gordon!

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Mary Eliza Mahoney...24/29

Mary Eliza Mahoney was the first African-American registered nurse in the U.S.A. She was born free on May 7, 1845 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, U.S.A. and became interested in nursing when she was a teenager. She worked for fifteen years at the New England Hospital for Women and Children (now Dimock Community Health Center) in Roxbury, Massachusetts as a cook, janitor, washerwoman and an unofficial nurse's assistant. In 1878, at the age of thirty-three, she was admitted as a student into the hospital's nursing program established by Dr. Marie Zakrzewska. Sixteen months later, she was one of four who completed the rigorous course (of forty-two who started with her). After graduation she worked primarily as a private duty nurse for the next thirty years all over the Eastern Seaboard of the United States. She ended her nursing career as director of an orphanage in Long Island, New York, the position she had held for a decade.

In 1896, Mahoney became one of the original members of a predominately white Nurses Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada (later known as the American Nurses Association or ANA). In 1908 she was cofounder of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN). Mahoney gave the welcoming address at the first convention of the NACGN and served as the association's national chaplain.

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"We have known how to face dangers to obtain our liberty, we shall know how to brave death to maintain it."

             Toussaint L'Ouverture, to the Directory ruling France, 1797

Toussaint L'Ouverture wrote his own path. He was not a victim. "His story" speaks of diligence, inner strength, in spite of the odds;

• Toussaint's force fought with a conquering spirit that soared among the clouds and rainbows. When they ran out of food, they fought hungry. When they ran out of ammunition they fought with stones. When the British troops spread splintered glass on the battlefield, Toussaint's fighters advanced on bloody, lacerated feet. In January 1798, the slaves beat the British in seven battles over seven days and forced them from the island.

• In 1800, his army defeated the Spanish army on the eastern half of the island. By then, Toussaint commanded an army of 55,000 veteran fighters. (George Washington never commanded more than 20,000.) In 1801, Haiti declared independence--a republic of self-emancipated slaves

• In France, Napoleon Bonaparte seized power, reversed many revolutionary verdicts and tried to build a French empire through war. He restored slavery in colonies under his command. Fresh from military victories in Italy, he sent huge armies to retake Haiti under his brother-in-law General Leclerc.

• Toussaint boarded a French ship to negotiate and was treacherously taken captive. Toussaint L'Ouverture, one of history's greatest revolutionary leaders, died far from Haiti in a cold cell high in the French Alps. The revolution continued under his lieutenants, Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Henri Christophe. They delivered the first military defeat to Napoleon in 1804 and forced the French to accept Haitian independence.

• One by one, armies of oppressors had stepped forward, hoping to re-enslave Haiti's people. The slave army, forged by former coachman Toussaint L'Ouverture, defeated them one by one.

 

• This Haitian revolution was an earthquake that triggered aftershocks throughout the slave colonies of the Americas. The slaveowners of the U.S. tried to suppress news from Haiti--and of course it did not work. The Haitians inspired the conspiracy of Denmark Vesey in 1822, the slave revolt of Nat Turner in 1831 and the militant abolitionists like John Brown. In the victory of Haiti--in the brilliance of its revolution and the endurance of its independence--slaves everywhere took heart, and the oppressors saw a foreshadowing of their defeat.

 

 

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Marcus Mosiah Garvey...22/29

Philip Randolph met Marcus Garvey in 1916 while making a speech on behalf of the Socialist Party. He later recalled his impression of Garvey as a political leader.

I was on a soapbox speaking on socialism, when someone pulled my coat and said, "There's a young man here from Jamaica. I said, "What does he want to talk about?" He said, "He wants to talk about a movement to develop a back-to-Africa sentiment in America."

Garvey got up on the platform, and you could hear him from 135th to 125th Street. He had a tremendous voice. When he finished speaking he sat near the platform with a sheaf of paper on which he was constantly writing, and he had stamps and envelopes, ready to send out his propaganda. I could tell from watching him even then that he was one of the greatest propagandists of his time





To learn about Garvey click here:
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and here:
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and here:
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and here:
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Oprah Winfrey…23/29

There’s a very specific turning point in her life that touched me, and forever changed how I viewed her.

Somewhere around the mid to late 90’s she had the top viewed talk show…then, along came Jerry Springer. He changed the talk show game forever, with his cheap, titillating, and confrontational format. Almost all of the other talk shows followed Jerry Springer’s lead, and tried to out-trash each other in an effort to become the most outrageous talk show, to capitalize on easy ratings. But not Oprah!

Oprah went in the exact opposite direction. She brought in the “Remembering Your Spirit” theme and segments, and she took a stand for positivity, spirituality, and being your best self. Not many people have the courage to be so positive in today’s ‘money over morals’ entertainment industry, and risk there fortune, rank, and status. But, she did, and her show has been the gold standard for professionalism in talk shows and journalism ever since. I will never forget that pivotal time…and you shouldn’t either.

I did the portrait of Oprah as a child in honor of the “Remembering Your Spirit” theme. Children tend to be innately positive, hopeful, and joyous. When we become adults, many times life shucks that positivity and hope out of you. This idea she had to reconnect us with our natural inclination to be positive and balanced has changed the lives of millions for the better.

I will forever love Oprah for this!

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Maya Angelou...19/29

Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

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Dr. Mae Jemison...11/29

Dr. Jemison is an extremely accomplished person with experience as a chemical engineer, scientist, physician, teacher and astronaut. She also has training in African-American studies, dance and choreography. Jemison entered Stanford University in 1973 at the age of 16, graduated in 1977 and began Medical School at Cornell. While studying at Cornell, Jemison spent time providing medical care in Cuba, Kenya and Thailand. She earned her doctorate in medicine in 1981 and in 1988she completed astronaut training, becoming the first African-American female astronaut. Jemison is the first female of color to go into space, where she conducted experiments in 1992 aboard the space shuttle. She left NASA in 1993 to become a faculty member at Dartmouth College, where she is Director of the Jemison Institute for Advancing Technology in Developing Countries. This Black woman is truly out of this world!

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Maya Angelou...19/29

Dr. Maya Angelou is one of the most renowned and influential voices of our time. Hailed as a global renaissance woman, Dr. Angelou is a celebrated poet, memoirist, novelist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker, and civil rights activist.

You simply must read more about her:
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John Coltrane...16/29
A Love Supreme...A Love Supreme...A Love Supreme...A Love Supreme...A Love Supreme...A Love Supreme...A Love Supreme...A Love Supreme...A Love Supreme...

This could very easily be Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, or Duke Ellington, for their contributions to Jazz. I'm honor John Coltrane for his marriage of jazz and spirituality. He played his saxophone like the voice of Mahalia Jackson. His quest for oneness with God came through in his music. One of the few musicians whose music I can meditate to, and really takes me to another realm when I do.

A Love Supreme...A Love Supreme...A Love Supreme...A Love Supreme...A Love Supreme...A Love Supreme...A Love Supreme...A Love Supreme...A Love Supreme...A Love Supreme...A Love Supreme...A Love Supreme...


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A brilliant African-American physician, famous for his pioneering work in blood preservation. Charles R. Drew's indelible impact in medical sciences, and subsequently the world, are efforts that mankind will forever be grateful.

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