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 ...

Garvey, who was born in Jamaica in 1887, believed that white society would never treat black people equally. He founded the anti-colonial Universal Negro Improvement Association and African ...

But Garvey and Ashwood kept in touch through letters and Amy eventually joined Marcus in New York in 1918. She worked by his side at UNIA and even saved him from an assassination attempt in ...

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 ...

As DEI falters, Black Americans should revisit the vision of Marcus Garvey by Roger House, opinion contributor - 02/01/25 1:00 PM ET ...

The road to Garvey’s presidential pardon is a story of tireless activism by human rights leaders, Garvey’s descendants and members of Congress, some of whom died before they could see their ...

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.

Marcus Garvey, in pseudo-military garb . On the last day of his presidency, Joe Biden pardoned the controversial black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey (1887-1940), among a handful of other last ...

On his last full day as President, Biden issued pardons for 5 people including Don Scott, Marcus Garvey, and Kemba Pradia, a Richmond-born prison reform activist.

Julius Garvey receives long-awaited pardon for his father Marcus Garvey, a Black nationalist and activist. President Biden's last-minute action clears his name.

Biden has issued a posthumous pardon to Marcus Mosiah Garvey, ... In Portsmouth, Virginia, state lawmaker Don Scott has been pardoned for his 1994 conviction for a non-violent drug crime.