Marcus Garvey ignited one of the most phenomenal social movements in modern history and was admired around the world. Yet few ...
The Marcus Mosiah Garvey Foundation (MMGF) and the Afro Continental Union Consult (ACUC) have called on President John Dramani Mahama to rename the Kotoka International Airport in honour of Dr. Kwame ...
That didn’t take long. In about the time it takes to say “Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday,” President Donald Trump launched a nuclear attack on everything the civil rights leader ever stood for. In ...
Trump was, of course, referring to the money line from King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech, the one he delivered in stirring fashion on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during 1963’s March on ...
The road to Garvey’s presidential pardon is a story of tireless activism by human rights leaders, Garvey’s descendants and ...
Successive governments of Jamaica had called for Garvey to be pardoned for 40 years, making the first appeal to Ronald Reagan and the last to Biden. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Garvey’s ...
Arlington County Board Chair Libby Garvey in 2024 (via Arlington County/YouTube) After nearly three decades in elected office, former County Board member Libby Garvey plans to remain active in ...
Garvey was “the first man of color in the history of the United States to lead and develop a mass movement,” Hansford said, quoting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “He was the first man on a mass scale and ...
From Raphael Warnock to Barack Obama, Black leaders have been mum. Better still, who exactly can we call on as Black leaders ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other civil rights leaders and was convicted of mail fraud in the ...