Pan-African leader Marcus Mosiah Garvey, convicted of mail fraud in 1923 in the U.S., is buried at National Heroes Park in Kingston. His remains were brought to Jamaica in 1964 after his death in ...

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 on ...

MEMBER of Parliament for St Andrew South Western, Dr Angela Brown Burke is calling for an expansion of Marcus Garvey’s teachings beyond the school curriculum, in order to preserve the legacy of ...

Garvey's body is returned to Jamaica. The following day he is declared the country's first national hero. He is buried in the Marcus Garvey Memorial, National Heroes' Park, Kingston, Jamaica.

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 ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica—The Mayor of Kingston, Andrew Swaby, has thanked former United States president Joe Biden for pardoning Marcus Garvey, Jamaica’s first national hero and former councillor at ...