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Author Ekwueme Michael Thelwell Speaks on Stokely Carmichael at Barnard, Oct. 19
New York, NY-- Tomorrow at 7 p.m., as part of the Forum on Migration, Jamaican-born writer and scholar Ekwueme Michael Thelwell will give a lecture on Stokely Carmichael from his recent autobiography on the late civil rights leader.
The lecture will take place in the Sulzberger Parlor, 3 rd Floor of Barnard Hall (117 th Street and Broadway,) and is free and open to the public.
During the last months of his life, Carmichael dictated his story to Thelwell, his friend and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) colleague. The autobiography, Ready for Revolution , was published to coincide with the fifth anniversary of Carmichael's death in 1998 in Guinea and traces his path from Trinidadian immigrant to student activist to honorary prime minister of the Black Panther Party to his embrace of Pan-Africanism.
Thelwell is Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and author of the classic Jamaican novel, The Harder They Come ; a collection of political and literary essays, Duties, Pleasures, and Conflicts ; and numerous articles on politics and literature. Thelwell received his B.A. at Howard University in 1964, where he first became involved in the civil rights movement, serving as director of the Washington, D.C. office of SNCC, and recruiting volunteers for Freedom Summer. He has worked in Washington for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (1964-1965), and led a citizens' legislative initiative to end American tax-payer subsidies to apartheid, which was signed into law in 1987. He has received fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Society for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Centennial Medal of the Institute of Jamaica. He is presently working on a critical study of the Nigerian author Chinua Achebe.
The Barnard Forum of Migration is supported by a bequest from the Weiss Fellowship Fund to bring distinguished scholars in the literature and the arts to Barnard, and offers seminars, lectures, and readings that explore the issues connected to the movement of people from one part of the world to another. The Forum of Migration is directed by Caryl Phillips, the Henry R. Luce Professor of Migration of Social Order and Professor of English at Barnard.
Contact: Petra Tuomi, Public Affairs, 212-854-7907 |
