Stephen Biko A Guide to Understanding Black Identity

Steve Biko, the 30-year-old leader of the black consciousness movement in South Africa died while in police hands. Listen in to our show commemorating Steve Biko, who was murdered in 1977 while in custody of the South African police. Biko was an anti-apartheid activist in ... He knew the needs of the black community, and he believed in self-help. In 1975 he founded the Zimele Trust Fund to help political prisoners and their families, ... Steve Biko was an anti-apartheid activist who spearheaded the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa. As a newspaper columnist, Biko used his writings to define and publicise his philosophy of black consciousness. He and the black consciousness ... Stephen Biko was an anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s. He was a student leader and founded the Black Consciousness Movement ... A rare collection of 12 typed letters signed by Steve Biko, written to the Chief Magistrate of King William's Town between May 16, 1973 and July 19, 1977, ... Biko, Steve (Steven Biko) bēˈkō [key], 1946–77, South African political leader. A medical student, he founded (1969) a black student organization and ... Forty years after his death, Stephen Bantu Biko is rememberd as the founder of the Black Consciousness Movement and hailed as a martyr of the anti-Apartheid ... The fundamental tenet of his Black Consciousness philosophy was that being black is not a matter of pigmentation but rather a reflection of a ...