“The riots raged for nearly a week, leaving nine whites and hundreds of African Americans dead, and property damage estimated ...
That didn’t take long. In about the time it takes to say “Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday,” President Donald Trump launched a nuclear attack on everything the civil rights leader ever stood for. In ...
Iconic songs by Sam Cooke, Kim Weston, Public Enemy, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Lauryn Hill, Kendrick Lamar and more depict ...
Trump was, of course, referring to the money line from King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech, the one he delivered in stirring fashion on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during 1963’s March on ...
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 ...
Activist Marcus Garvey and his namesake ideology, Garveyism, advocated for Black separatism and nationalism. Read about his ...
Successive governments of Jamaica had called for Garvey to be pardoned for 40 years, making the first appeal to Ronald Reagan and the last to Biden. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Garvey’s ...
Ex-President Joe Biden used his waning hours in office in part to issue a posthumous pardon for Black civil rights icon Marcus Garvey, who family members and advocates argued was mistreated for ...