There Shall Just Be People

Bantu Stephen Biko - South African writer, organizer, anti-apartheid activist and "Father of the Black Consciousness Movement" - would have turned 70 Sunday. Murdered in detention at age 30, he continues to be honored for his struggle for racial equality by a foundation created by his son, a Steve Biko Cultural Center in his hometown, an online archive, at least two biographies, and, for his birthday, a Google doodle. A former medical student and scholar of Frantz Fanon and Malcom X, Biko founded the  Black Consciousness movement in 1969...read more.