Nambi E. Kelley’s play is about the activist Stokely Carmichael, who played a major role in both the civil rights movement and the Black Power movement.
Melanie Brezill, Kelvin Roston Jr., Anthony Irons and Dee Dee Batteast in “Stokely: The Unfinished Revolution” at Court Theatre. the Black Power movement, something that could not said about either Martin Luther King Jr., or Malcolm X. Thus although less famous than those two men, Carmichael’s biography, involving as it does time spent with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Black Panther Party, offers a unique linkage between those iconic pillars.
As Kelley portrays him, Carmichael felt abandoned by his mother and determined to separate from a father with different ambitions for his son. She clearly sees her subject as a force of nature and, in the actor Anthony Irons, she has an ideal partner. Carmichael moved to Guinea in 1969 and rejected the Panthers on the grounds that they formed alliances with white radicals. For the final decades of his relatively short life , Kwame Ture devoted himself to the pan-African movement and the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party.
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