The term “Black Power” has various origins. Its roots can be traced to author Richard Wright’s non-fiction work Black Power, published in 1954. In 1965, the Lowndes County [Alabama] Freedom Organization (LCFO) used the slogan “Black Power for Black People” for its political candidates.

Soon after he was named chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Stokely Carmichael began to tout the slogan and philosophy of Black Power. In the speech below he explains Black Power to an audience at the University of California, Berkeley.

Stokely Carmichael, 25, head of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, speaks at the University of California’s Greek Theater, Berkeley, California, October 29, 1966, jammed with 14,000 people.

The Black Power Movement of the 1960s and 1970s was a political and social movement whose advocates believed in racial pride, self-sufficiency, and equality for all people of Black and African descent.

Although King criticized calls for Black separatism and armed self-defense, he supported anticolonial movements and agreed that African Americans should seek compensatory government actions to redress historical injustices and end poverty.

was a social activist and Baptist minister who played a key role in the American civil rights movement from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968. King sought equality and human rights for African Americans, the economically disadvantaged and all victims of injustice through peaceful protest.

Malcolm X was the most influential thinker of what became known as the Black Power movement, and inspired others like Stokely Carmichael of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale of the Black Panther Party.

With its emphasis on Black racial identity, pride and self-determination, Black Power influenced everything from popular culture to education to politics, while the movement’s challenge to structural inequalities inspired other groups (such as Chicanos, Native Americans, Asian Americans and LGBTQ people) to pursue …

Black Power is a political slogan and a name which is given to various associated ideologies which aim to achieve self-determination for people of African descent. It is primarily, but not exclusively, used by African American activists and proponents of what the slogan entails in the United States.

The Black Power Revolution, also known as the Black Power Movement, 1970 Revolution, Black Power Uprising and February Revolution, was an attempt by a number of social elements, people and interest groups in Trinidad and Tobago to effect socio-political change.

On April 6, Cleaver and 14 other Panthers were involved in a confrontation with Oakland police officers, during which two of the officers were wounded. Cleaver was wounded during the ambush and 17-year-old Black Panther member Bobby Hutton was killed.

Njeri was present at the December 4, 1969 police raid in which her fiancé, Fred Hampton, and Mark Clark were killed at the Chicago apartment she and Hampton shared.

Deceased (1935–1998)

William O’Neal (informant)

84 years (October 22, 1936)

Bethel Cemetery, Louisiana, United States

Television. T’Chaka appears in the Fantastic Four episode “Panther’s Prey”, voiced by Beau Weaver. Just like the comics, he is killed by Klaw. T’Chaka appears in episode 3 of Black Panther, voiced by Jonathan Adams.

Shuri is a princess of the fictional African kingdom of Wakanda. She is the daughter of T’Chaka and sister of T’Challa, who is the king of Wakanda and the Black Panther, an earned title and rank given to the paramount chief of the nation….Shuri (character)

According to Marvel HQ, Black Widow’s abilities include: being a “master in the covert arts of espionage, infiltration, and subterfuge,” an “expert martial artists, with exceptional agility and athletic ability,” and someone who “utilizes advanced weaponry including custom stun batons & ‘Widow’s Bite’ bracelets capable …