As his presidency winds to a close, President Biden issued a posthumous pardon for Marcus Garvey ... comes more than a century after Jamaican-born Garvey was convicted of mail fraud on June ...

Why it matters: The Jamaican-born Garvey was convicted of mail ... He died in London in 1940 at the age of 52. Dr. Julius Garvey, son of Marcus Garvey, poses in the eponymous Marcus Garvey Park ...

Aug. 17 marks the day Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey was born. Often regarded as a controversial figure in history, Garvey was key in making the “back to Africa” movement mainstream.

Born Sydney King in Lusignan in 1925 ... 1925 was the year that Marcus Garvey was imprisoned in the US. It was the birthyear of Malcolm X, who would become a prominent civil rights leader and ...

Today, racism in this country is still a central force that progressives are working to change. We are, after all, living in a period when authoritarianism, racism, and incipient fascism are all on ...

Jamaica has several tourist centers — Montego Bay, Port Antonio, Negril — but if you're not the type who likes to be on the resort all day, Ocho Rios is one of the best places you can stay. The town ...

Like Marcus Garvey before him, Baba Eusi played a profound ... Baba Eusi Kwayana was born on April 4, 1925—less than a century after the abolition of slavery in Guyana and the British West ...

Gilloon said she is optimistic that the space — the only Long Island nominee out of 20 proposed in New York, including Marcus Garvey Park and ... the time they’re born until the time they ...

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

Note, I did not say Jamaica should ape what successful countries do. That aside, I am astonished that a country, which up to ...

On his birth anniversary (April 22), it’s worth taking a closer look at how this revolutionary from distant Russia became a ...