One of the great statement albums in pop music, Marcus Garvey by Burning Spear turns 50 this year. To mark its golden ...

Africanism, pioneer of black pride, freedom fighter. His influence sparked black power movements from the Nation of Islam to Rastafari and inspired anti-colonial thinkers around the world. To others, ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — The quest for a U.S. presidential pardon for revolutionary Black nationalist leader Marcus Mosiah Garvey began more than 100 years ago, immediately after Garvey was convicted ...

Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement ... He never returned to America. In Jamaica Garvey reconstituted the U.N.I.A. and held conventions there and in Canada, but the heart of his ...

Marcus Garvey, born in Jamaica when it was still a British colony, went on to found the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Kingston. He was the first person after the country’s ...

Marcus Mosiah Garvey was born in Jamaica in 1887, then still under British rule. He left Jamaica in 1910 to work on the British-owned plantations. According to the “Philosophy and Opinions of ...

Marcus Garvey rides in a parade in this undated photograph ... Garvey was ultimately deported to Jamaica in 1927. He later died in London in 1940 at age 52. "All of [these pardon efforts] have ...

Golding highlighted that Baltimore’s symposium was the fourth in this series, following previous events in Jamaica, Atlanta and Brooklyn. “We got a plaque done that said, ‘Marcus Garvey spok ...

Marcus Garvey met Amy Ashwood Garvey, the woman who would become his first wife, during a trip to Jamaica in 1914. He was attending a debate at a local high school, where she gave what he called a ...