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Burning Spear’s ‘Marcus Garvey’ to be revisited at Calabash for 50th anniversary One of the great statement albums in pop music, Marcus Garvey by Burning Spear turns 50 this year.
The lengthy profile was largely based on the biography “The Life of Louise Norton Little” by Jessica Russell, although Hilda Little, her eldest daughter, compiled most of the vital research.
The Official Biography of Malcolm X for Young Readers, by Ibram X. Kendi In my suburban, largely Black high school in 1980s New Jersey, we sang “Life Every Voice and Sing” at assemblies.
Bravo to Nydia A Swaby for Amy Ashwood Garvey and the Future of Black Feminist Archives. Through archival documentation and imaginative reconstruction, Swaby delicately leads us through the story of ...
Marcus-garvey—mini-biography Marcus Garvey, who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in 1914 and advocated for Black nationalism, was posthumously pardoned by President Joe ...
We know Marcus Garvey as a powerful figure in Black history who dedicated much of his life to promoting self-love among Black people and encouraging an eventual return to their ancestral homeland ...
The spirit of Marcus Garvey was alive and well the evening of Feb. 3 as Baltimore hosted its inaugural Marcus Garvey Symposium at Trinity Baptist Church. The event, which began at 6 p.m., brought ...
Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on a little-known figure in American history.
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 road to Garvey’s presidential pardon is a story of tireless activism by human rights leaders, Garvey’s descendants and members of Congress, some of whom died before they could see their ...
The last time Dr. Julius Winston Garvey saw his father, Marcus, was in London in 1938, when he was just five years old. Dr. Garvey remembers glimpses of his life with him, like their trips for ice ...