Finally done.” “We want to make sure that our children, grandchildren and children to come will recognize the fact that Marcus Garvey is our first national hero,” Nugent said. He said that ...

Marcus Garvey was a Jamaican civil rights activist, the founding father of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), and an owner of the Black Star Line shipping company.

The road to Garvey’s presidential pardon is a story of tireless activism by human rights leaders, Garvey’s descendants and ...