Stokely Carmichael wasn’t the first person to use the phrase “Black Power.” He wasn’t the first person to use it before a crowd. He wasn’t even the first Black leader to do that, but in Greenwood, MS ...

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 ...

Stokely Carmichael had already served 49 days inside a Mississippi prison farm for nonviolent civil rights activism when he returned to the state in June of 1966. Just 25 years old, a Howard ...

One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today. Whitaker examines the pivotal year in ...

Carmichael, who replaced John Lewis as head of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in 1966, led the largest anti-war demonstration of the 1960s and marched alongside of Martin Luther King ...

Educators often frame their work as preparing students to thrive in the world. But to the civil rights leaders who created the Mississippi Freedom Schools in the 1960s, the task was more like ...

About US is an initiative by The Washington Post to explore issues of identity in the United States. Sign up for the newsletter. Former president Bill Clinton’s disparaging remarks about Black Power ...

Hasan Kwame Jeffries is an associate professor of history at Ohio State University. He is the author of “Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt.” I enjoy a good funeral.

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 rights ...