He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create, and from this capacity has flowed the sweet songs of sorrow and joy that have allowed man to cope with his environment and many different ...

His 2008 song honoring the first Black president of ... Obama’s unwillingness to pardon Jamaica-born pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey. Although short in stature, Cocoa Tea was a musical giant ...

In the song, Cocoa Tea repeatedly sang Obama’s name in the chorus ... One of Cocoa Tea’s biggest disappointments was Obama’s failure to grant a posthumous pardon to Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican national ...

The Black nationalist leader had a love story that could have been ripped from the storyline of your favorite soap opera. We know Marcus Garvey as a powerful figure in Black history who dedicated ...

Marcus Garvey, who founded the Universal Negro Improvement ... justice, and unity. His songs were particularly fitting for the evening’s theme, setting the tone for the night’s most ...

leading many to wonder if he knew it would be the last song he released before his death — a kind of farewell message to the ...

Researchers interviewed during this series said they think the most notable initial instances of the use of the term "woke" is in a song by Lead Belly and spoken by activist Marcus Garvey's during ...

Marcus Garvey ignited one of the most phenomenal social ... history until the reggae band Burning Spear revived his vision in songs. Eventually, Jamaica recovered his body for a state burial ...

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 ...

As one of his last acts in office, President Joe Biden issued a posthumous pardon for Black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and generations of civil rights leaders.

On the last day of his presidency, Joe Biden pardoned the controversial black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey (1887-1940), among a handful of other last-minute pardons. The Garvey pardon had long ...

Back in 1937, Marcus Garvey met supporters in Nova Scotia and gave a speech that would later be woven by Bob Marley into ‘Redemption Song’: ‘We must emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because ...