Two years after they started dating, Garvey and Ashwood got engaged in 1916. But they would be forced apart by Ashwood’s parents, who didn’t approve of the relationship and sent her to Panama.

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 ...

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 ...

F or over a century, civil rights leader Marcus Mosiah Garvey was demonized, misunderstood and left to the interpretations of the history books after being convicted of mail fraud in 1923 and ...

Members of Congress urge Biden to exonerate Marcus Garvey following recent executive pardons and commutations. The letter to President Joe Biden, dated just before the Christmas holiday, calls on ...

When Marcus Garvey first arrived in the United States in 1916, he quickly found his way to many of New York's most prominent black radical activists and intellectuals. And, at least briefly ...

Biden pardons revolutionary Marcus Garvey on last full day in office. The president’s pardon of Garvey, a seminal figure in the civil rights movement, is another reflection of his presidency’s ...

Nearly two dozen House Democrats have signed a letter encouraging President Joe Biden to exonerate former civil rights leader Marcus Garvey. In 1923, Garvey — one of the first internationally ...

President Joe Biden pardoned five people on Sunday, including the late civil rights leader Marcus Garvey, and commuted the sentences of two, the White House said in a statement.. Garvey, who died ...

President Biden pardoned five activists and public servants on Sunday, including a posthumous grant of clemency to the civil rights leader Marcus Garvey, who mobilized the Black nationalist ...