Garvey, Marcus
GARVEY, MARCUS. Marcus Mosiah Garvey (August 17, 1887–June 10, 1940), the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), led the largest mass movement among Afric...
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Marcus Garvey
Born August 17, 1887
St. Anns Bay, Jamaica
Died June 10, 1940
London, England
Leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, which preached black pride and advocated a return to ...
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Garvey, Marcus (1887-1940)
As an activist who promoted Black pride, Marcus Garvey founded one of the largest mass movements of Black Americans. Garvey's United Negro Improvement Association (UN...
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Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887-1940), a black man from the West Indies, was the first to forcefully articulate the concept of African nationalism--of black people returning to Africa, the continent of the...
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On Saturday nights in summer, hundreds of fingers pound out mesmerizing rhythms on African drums _ a ritual repeated for decades in Harlem's Marcus Garvey Park.This year, the drums have a counterpo...
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Invoking a racially charged controversy, Democrat Barack Obama told a Harlem fundraiser Thursday that he deplored the fact that hanging nooses and "Jena Six" cases are still found in America and th...
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Saturday
8 a.m. Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe, Rep. Charles Rangel and eight world-class runners and medical professionals will participate in a fitness jamboree including health fair and sports...
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Saturday
9:30 a.m. Church groups will help build affordable homes for
Bedford-Stuyvesant families at Halsey
Street and Marcus Garvey Boulevard, in
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
10 a.m. A march...
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Saturday, August 4, 2007
9 a.m. All-Day Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival at Flushing Meadow Lake kicks off, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens.
9:30 a.m. Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum, joined by ...
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Garvey, Marcus
Garvey, Marcus
Garvey, Marcus (1887-1940)
Marcus Mosiah Garvey
Drummers clash with new Harlem residents
