August 17: Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. is born in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica to Marcus Mosiah Garvey Sr., a mason, and Sarah Jane Richards, a domestic worker and farmer. Garvey leaves St. Ann's Bay and ...

For over a century, civil rights leader Marcus Mosiah Garvey was demonized, misunderstood and left to the interpretations of ...

Amy Ashwood, feminist, playwright, lecturer, and pan-Africanist, was one of the founding members of the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Jamaica, and the first wife of Marcus Garvey.