On Nov 15, 1996, Sao Paolo, Brazil's largest and richest city, elected its first black mayor, former finance secy Celso Roberto Pitta do Nascimento, who won 57% of the vote.
Kwame Ture, once widely in the news as black activist Stokely Carmichael, still propounds that he is "ready for the revolution." Ture, who is under treatment for prostate cancer, defines himself as a revolutionary.