FOR MANY, stepping through the doors of Ujima Adult & Family Services and Roots Community Health feels like a Black oasis. Portraits of important ...

One of the great statement albums in pop music, Marcus Garvey by Burning Spear turns 50 this year. To mark its golden anniversary, organisers of the Calabash Literary Festival in Treasure Beach ...

In this photograph, its founder, the Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey, is seen (on the right) at the 1924 convention with the prominent anti-colonialist Prince Kojo Tovalou Hounénou (seated in the ...

WASHINGTON DC, USA— A plaque will be unveiled in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 25 to honour Jamaica’s first National Hero Marcus Mosiah Garvey. The event will take place at the Big Bethel AME ...

A close-up portrait of Jamaican Pan-Africanist activist, Amy Ashwood Garvey (1897 - 1969), first wife of Marcus Garvey, at the Fifth Pan-African Congress, held at Chorlton-upon-Medlock Town Hall ...

The spirit of Marcus Garvey was alive and well the evening of Feb. 3 as Baltimore hosted its inaugural Marcus Garvey Symposium at Trinity Baptist Church. The event, which began at 6 p.m., brought ...

Marcus Garvey ignited one of the most phenomenal social movements in modern history and was admired around the world. Yet few today understand his quest to promote the economic and cultural ...

In Jamaica, where Garvey is the first national hero, and his portrait is painted on schoolhouse walls, ... Marcus Garvey was born on Aug. 17, 1887, in St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica.

Garvey has been officially declared a national hero in Jamaica, where his portrait graces the country’s 100-dollar bill. The pardon dominated the front page of the two daily newspapers in the island ...

Now, 102 years later, the United States has deemed it fit to right their wrong. On Joe Biden’s last day of presidency, he granted clemency to Marcus Garvey Sr. as part of a spate of dozens of ...

Marcus Garvey’s Pardon Is Part of Undoing “Harms of the Past,” Honoring Black History: Justin Hansford. Story January 24, 2025. Watch Full Show. Watch Full Show Next Story. Listen.