The Black nationalist leader had a love story that could have been ripped from the storyline of your favorite soap opera.

Marcus Garvey was born on Aug. 17, 1887, in St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica. In 1914, he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association ... lead and develop a mass movement. He was the first ...

Known as the First International Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World, the gathering featured parades in Harlem and had around 2,000 delegates representing over 20 countries. Subscribe to get ...

Garvey was convicted of mail fraud in 1923. President Joe Biden has posthumously pardoned civil rights leader Marcus Garvey ... founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA ...

“Biden just pardoned Marcus Garvey ... Hearing these stories of resistance, Garvey was inspired to formulate the Universal Negro Improvement Assopciation (UNIA) in 1914, based in Kingston ...

The celebration will honor a lesser-known political activist, Marcus Mosiah Garvey. Members of the community are invited to a ...

In pardoning Marcus Garvey ... by celebrating African history and culture. Through the UNIA, he pushed for a “back to Africa” movement, going so far as to create the Black Star Line to ...

Marcus Garvey ignited one of the most phenomenal social movements in modern history and was admired around the world. Yet few today understand his quest to promote the economic and cultural ...

The removal of the unjust stain on Marcus Garvey’s name restores the full ... the influential 19th century pan-Africanist movement — the UNIA — that had captured the imagination of hundreds ...

The president’s pardon of Garvey, a seminal figure in the civil rights movement, is another reflection of his presidency’s ties to the Black community.

During an earlier period of reactionary politics in America, Garvey created a movement that enabled Black people to be proud of their cultural heritage, engage in meaningful cooperative economics ...