Marcus Garvey met Amy Ashwood Garvey, the woman who would become his first wife, during a trip to Jamaica in 1914.

Marcus Mosiah Garvey was born in Jamaica in 1887, then still under British rule. He left Jamaica in 1910 to work on the British-owned plantations.

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 ...

Marcus Garvey was born in Jamaica in 1887, 53 years after the abolishment of slavery in the country. Garvey’s father had been a part of the 1865 rebellion of Jamaicans who revolted against ...

And this is connected to the pardon of Marcus Garvey, interestingly, because Garvey’s pardon is an example of the process of seeking to repair harms of the past.

In one of his last acts in office, President Joe Biden exonerates the late Jamaica-born civil rights leader, Marcus Mosiah Garvey.

After Garvey was convicted, he was deported to Jamaica, where he was born. He died in 1940. There is a statue of Garvey in San Fernando. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. said of Garvey: “He was ...

President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other civil rights leaders and was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s.

Currently, these predictions of a decaying empire have come largely to fruition Cultural debate has also evolved around the history of British colonialism. Anti-colonial ideas fostered by W.E.B Du ...

Marcus Garvey, circa 1924 (Pic: George Grantham Bain Collection, via Wikimedia Commons) THIS NOVEMBER marks 60 years since Jamaica appointed its first national hero, The Right Excellent Marcus ...

BROWN’S TOWN, Jamaica — Three and a half years ago, Sherman Harris gathered together a clutch of family and friends at his home on a hilltop here in rural Jamaica to watch his cousin step into ...