Car ‧ mi ‧ chael, Stoke ‧ ly /kɑːˈmaɪk ə l $ ˈkɑːrmaɪ-, ˈstəʊkli/ BrE AmE
(1941–98) a former member of the Black Panthers who worked actively in the 1960s to achieve social and political change in the US for African Americans. He invented the phrase ‘black power ’.