In honor of Black History Month and Valentine’s Day, we’re looking at Marcus Garvey and his tale of two Amys. A close-up portrait of Jamaican Pan-Africanist activist, Amy Ashwood Garvey (1897 ...

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 granted a posthumous pardon ... was convicted of mail fraud in 1923. Garvey served two years of his five-year prison sentence before he was deported back to Jamaica.

In the opening moments of “African Redemption: The Life and Legacy of Marcus ... Since Garvey’s death in 1940, his messages have been spread through means beyond books and essays.