For his charm and jetset lifestyle, many call Ewart Brown the Playboy Premier. The name fits for another reason. A reader points out that he’s probably the only Bermudian to have been the focus of an editorial in Playboy. It was back in 1969 when, as a campus radical, he was among the leaders of a student takeover of the Howard University administration building …
Ewart Brown on the importance of Press Freedom
I feel that the networks have actually performed a public service by dramatizing the fact that the students are deeply dissatisfied, and enabling a lot of people whom we couldn’t have reached on our own to hear our demands. The universities would like to sweep these disputes under the rug, but they can’t do that with the TV cameras on them.
Ewart Brown on the problems of Elitist Leadership
Jive! The students don’t think of themselves as any kind of an elite but as people who are challenging the real elite-those who control all of our destinies, those who control the system. The students would like to make democracy real instead of just a slogan. My knowledge of the subject is more or less restricted to the black campuses and black students, and we don’t consider ourselves a smug elite but people who are angry and disenchanted with everything around us. The only lives we want to control are our own, and we turn to militant measures only because all other means of effecting change have failed.
In the name of Public Access to Information, we demand that this important publication be put on display at the National Archives. So we can read the editorials.
