Marcus Garvey was granted a posthumous pardon by former President Joe Biden on his last full day in office, January 19. The late Jamaican-born activist, who was a prominent proponent of Black ...

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. In 1923 ...

The United States of Africa is the political uniting of all African and Afro Caribbean nations, along with Papua New Guinea, ...

Jamaican national hero Marcus Mosiah Garvey, who continues to get much respect in the island country and diaspora communities around the world, will be recognized on Aug. 20 at a ceremony in the ...

A plaque will be unveiled in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 25 to honour Jamaica’s first National Hero Marcus Mosiah Garvey. The event will take place at the Big Bethel AME Church where Garvey made his ...

August 17: Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. is born in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica to Marcus Mosiah Garvey Sr., a mason, and Sarah Jane Richards, a domestic worker and farmer. Garvey leaves St. Ann's Bay and ...

In the 1930s, the Right Excellent Marcus Garvey envisioned what he wanted for Jamaica. According to the Jamaica Information Service (JIS), he wrote in an editorial printed in his newspaper, “We want ...

Two suspects have been arrested in connection with a shipment of illegal guns intercepted at Kingston Wharves. The ...

Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement ... He never returned to America. In Jamaica Garvey reconstituted the U.N.I.A. and held conventions there and in Canada, but the heart of his ...