Marcus Garvey, who died in 1940, led a “back to Africa” campaign that made him a seminal figure in the push for racial and economic justice for black people. Comments. Sign up.

Marcus Garvey: There are 400 million Africans in the world who have Negro blood coursin' through their veins. And we believe that the time has come to unite these 400 million people.

Garvey, who was born in Jamaica in 1887, believed that white society would never treat black people equally. He founded the anti-colonial Universal Negro Improvement Association and African ...

Marcus Garvey was born on Aug. 17, 1887, in St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica. In 1914, he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Two years later, he traveled to the United States where his ...

EXCLUSIVE: Dr. Julius Garvey, a notable cardiothoracic and vascular surgeon, has led the Justice4Garvey movement and is urging President Joe Biden to exonerate the late leader. Marcus Garvey made ...

As you just heard Marcus Garvey say, we do not intend to stay in that corner. We intend to fight back. And he’s a wonderful example and inspiration of what that fight back must look like going ...

In his final hours as president, Joe Biden pardoned Marcus Garvey and commuted Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier’s life sentence to house arrest. Black and Indigenous activists celebrate these ...

Marcus Garvey III, Julius' older brother, died in 2020 at age 90. But honoring their father's legacy is more than just providing closure for the family.

Marcus Garvey: Visionary, Orator, And Black Empowerment And Pan-Africanism Champion From NPR's history podcast Throughline comes this profile of the visionary, orator, and champion of Black ...

Marcus Garvey may be less familiar to some, but his ideas are all around us. King once described Garvey as "the first man on a mass scale and level to give millions of Negroes a sense of dignity ...

Marcus Garvey met Amy Ashwood Garvey, the woman who would become his first wife, during a trip to Jamaica in 1914. He was attending a debate at a local high school, ...

Marcus Garvey was born on Aug. 17, 1887, in St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica. In 1914, he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Two years later, he traveled to the United States where his ...