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Michael de Freitas
Michael de Freitas and Stokely Carmichael are two boys in Trinidad at the end of the 1950s. They grow up singing Land of Hope and Glory. De Freitas goes to England and becomes a gangster with the slum landlord Peter Rachman. He believes that melancholy over the loss of empire has possessed the minds of the British. He becomes a revolutionary.
Carmichael, meanwhile, goes to America and becomes one of the founders of the Black Panthers. He believes that changing the law is not enough; the racism has burrowed deep in the minds of millions of Americans. The only solution is to take power. He gives it a name: Black Power.
