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UNIA members, Dominica.

Source: Robert A. Hill - The Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers: Caribbean Diaspora, 1920-1921, Volume XII (2014)

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Breaking Barriers: Marcus Garvey vs. The Blue Vein Society | A Tale of Colorism and Unity

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"...A Tree Without roots." Did Marcus Garvey say that?

"A people without knowledge of its past is like a tree without roots." That is a quote from Charles Christopher Seifert, not Marcus Garvvey.

Short answer: No. Marcus Garvey never said it. Marcus Garvey never said or wrote, “A people without the knowledge of their past, history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots.” Ludacris wears a t-shirt in the video for the song “Pimpin’ All Over The World” with a version of the quote on it. Garvey didn’t say that either. Marcus Garvey never said, “A people without knowledge of its…

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Race First: The Ideological and Organizational Struggles of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association

Race First: The Ideological and Organizational Struggles of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association

This book has the important element that is missing in most of the books and articles on Garvey―a political analysis of what the Garvey Movement was about.

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David Hammons, African-American Flag, 1990 "David Hammons (American, b. 1943)} re-creates the familiar pattern of the American flag using the colors of the flag for the Universal Negro Improvement Association (U.N.I.A), an early twentieth-century black nationalist organization The U.N.I.A. flag featured broad bands of red, black, and green as symbolic colors intended to unite all people of African origin under one banner. Hammons's new version conflates the two flags, perhaps implying that a black nation resides within the United States or, conversely, that such a distinction is impossible. Hammons created African-American Flag for Black USA, a 1990 exhibition at the Museum Overholland in Amsterdam, which was the first exhibition of African American art to be organized by a European museum." (MCA)

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103 years ago, Marcus Garvey created The Pan-African/Black Liberation flag.

Garvey was the father of the black nationalist and pan african movements, activist & founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL)

Color Meaning:

Red: the blood that unites all people of Black African ancestry, and shed for liberation;

Black: for the people whose existence as a nation, though not a nation-state, is affirmed by the existence of the flag.

Green: the abundant and vibrant natural wealth of Africa, the Motherland.

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Hace 103 años, Marcus Garvey creó la bandera Panafricana o de Liberación Negra.

Garvey fue el padre de los movimientos nacionalistas negros y panafricanos, activista y fundador de la Asociación Universal para el Mejoramiento de los Negros y la Liga de Comunidades Africanas (UNIA-ACL).

Significado de los colores

Rojo: la sangre que une a todas las personas de ascendencia africana y la que ha sido derramada para alcanzar la liberación.

Negro: para las personas cuya existencia como nación, aunque no como Estado-nación, se afirma por la existencia de la bandera.

Verde: la abundante y vibrante riqueza natural de África, la Madre Patria.

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Audley “Queen Mother” Moore (July 27, 1898 - May 2, 1997) prominent Harlem civil rights activist, was born in New Iberia, Louisiana to Ella and St. Cry Moore. She educated herself by reading the writings of Frederick Douglass and listening to the speeches of Marcus Garvey.

Moved by the Black Nationalist message in a speech Marcus Garvey gave in New Orleans, she migrated to Harlem in 1922. She became a member and then a leader within Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association. A proud shareholder in the Black Star Line, she helped organize UNIA conventions in New York. She married Frank Warner in 1922. They had one son.

After the demise of the UNIA, she founded several organizations. She founded and served as president of the Universal Association of Ethiopian Women. She founded the Committee for Reparations for Descendants of US Slaves, and The Republic of New Africa, which demanded self-determination, land, and reparations for African Americans. During the height of the Cold War, she presented a petition to the UN in 1957 which demanded land and billions in reparations for people of African descent and it requested direct support for African Americans who sought to immigrate to Africa.

She focused on local issues. She participated in a sit-in at a Board of Education meeting in Brooklyn. She and the other protesters said board members failed to adequately fund schools in African American communities. She served as the bishop of the Apostolic Orthodox Church of Judea and she co-founded the Commission to Eliminate Racism, Council of Churches of Greater New York.

While attending the funeral of former Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah, the Ashanti ethnic group bestowed upon her the honorary title “Queen Mother.” The Corcoran Gallery of Art in DC. honored Moore and 40 other famous Black women in Brian Lanker’s photo exhibit, “I Dream a World.”

Her activism continued through the mid-1990s, and she made her final public appearance at the Million Man March in 1995. She was survived by her son, five grandchildren, and a great-grandson. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Amy Euphemia Jacques Garvey (31 December 1895 – 25 July 1973) was a Jamaican-born journalist and activist. She was the second wife of Marcus Garvey. She was one of the pioneering female Black journalists and publishers of the 20th century.

Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. ONH (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940) was a Jamaican political activist. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL, commonly known as UNIA), through which he declared himself Provisional President of Africa. Garvey was ideologically a black nationalist and Pan-Africanist, his ideas came to be known as Garveyism.

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On this day, 19 May 1925, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, better known as Malcolm X, was born in Omaha, Nebraska. The son of a supporter of Marcus Garvey and local leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, he would become one of the most influential advocates of equal rights as well as one of the harshest critics of white supremacy in the United States before his assassination in 1965. In particular his advocacy of self defence for Black people shocked the establishment: "Every time you pick up your newspaper, you see that I'm advocating violence. I have never advocated any violence. I've only said that Black people who are the victims of organised violence perpetrated upon us, we should defend ourselves… So, we only mean vigorous action in self-defence and that vigorous action we feel we're justified in initiating by any means necessary. The press call us racist and people who are 'violent in reverse.'… They make you think that if you try to stop the Klan from lynching you, you're practising 'violence in reverse.'" Originally a member of the Nation of Islam, El-Shabazz later left the group and founded the secular Organization of Afro-American Unity. He increasingly came to reject capitalism as inherently linked to racism, declaring in 1964: "You can't have capitalism without racism." Just three days before his murder he delivered a speech stating: "We are living in an era of revolution, and the revolt of the American Negro is part of the rebellion against the oppression and colonialism which has characterised this era… it is incorrect to classify the revolt of the Negro as simply a racial conflict of Black against white, or as a purely American problem. Rather, we are today seeing a global rebellion of the oppressed against the oppressor, the exploited against the exploiter." More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9128/malcolm-x-born To access this hyperlink, click our link in bio then click this photo https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=628907575949128&set=a.602588028581083&type=3

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August 17, 1887 Happy birthday Marcus

PAN-AFRICANIST MARCUS GARVEY

Iconic Pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey was born on this day 17th August in St Ann's Bay, Jamaica in 1887.

In his 52 years on earth he became one of the most influential Pan-Africans to ever walk the earth. He inspired some of our favourites like Dr Kwame Nkrumah and Malcolm X, whose parents were Garveyites.

Garvey was a political activist, publisher, journalist and orator. He founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL), a Pan-African organisation with branches in many countries.

However, his dedication to African liberation during heightened racial oppression in the US put the arrow on his back. Due to his massive influence throughout the Americas and beyond, he was a target for soon-to-be FBI director J Edgar Hoover.

He was tasked with destroying Garvey's mass movement and, in 1920, sent an undercover agent to infiltrate the UNIA-ACL. It led to Garvey serving jail time and sunk hopes of using his Black Star Line steamship to migrate Africans in America back to their ancestral home.

Despite this, Garvey was unwavering in his calls for a strong, sovereign Africa and for Africans to unite.

It had a profound influence on independence struggles on the continent. Ghana, one of the first states to become independent in Africa, placed the black star, popularised by Garvey, in the middle of their country's flag. Despite joining the ancestors 84 years ago his contributions to Africa and African people worldwide have been long-lasting.

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Marcus Garvey Born Day Today 🌴🌎❗

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Today we venerate Elevated Ancestor El-Hajj Malik El-Shabaz aka Brother Malcolm "X" Little on his 98th birthday 🎉

A minister, scholar, orator, & legendary Freedom Fighter- who infamously bore the name "X" to signify our self-liberation from the shackles of a European legacy forced upon us during Slavery -, we elevate Brother Malcolm as one of THE most prolific voices of freedom, justice, self-determination, & Pan-Afrikan unity in modern history.

Born into a legacy of freedom fighters, Brother Malcolm was raised on the cusp between Black Nationalism unity & White Supremacist terror. His father was a member of Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), in which he served as an orator publicly advocating for Black liberation before his murder.

Though a gifted student, Malcolm dropped out of school when a teacher ridiculed his aspirations to become a lawyer. He later drifted into a life of hustling on the streets of Harlem. He cleverly avoided the draft in WWII by making the outrageous declaration that he'd organize Black soldiers to attack their White counterparts which classified him as "mentally unfit to serve". After his burglary arrest in Boston, Malcolm faced 10 years in prison. Here, he found Islam via the NOI.

Upon his parole release, Malcolm took the name "X" as he began to serve in the NOI as a speaker, organizer, and minister. He quickly grew in his prominence & drew national attention after an expose on the NOI was aired on CBS. Both, Black & White Americans, saw the stark contrast in his/NOI views from that of other Black religious leaders/organizations of the time. Thus planting the first seeds of warped perception & fear.

Meanwhile, Brother Malcolm's personal views & interests slowly began to split from the leaders of the organization he'd come to love. Malcolm grew increasingly frustrated with the NOI's bureaucracy & outright refusal to join the Civil Rights Movement. His forbidden response to the assassination of JFK earned him a 90 suspension from the NOI; at which time he announced his departure from the organization.

In March 1964, he founded the Muslim Mosque, Inc. Three months later, he founded a political group called, the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU). Malcolm firmly placed Black Revolution in a global context of an anti-imperialist struggle here, in Afrika, Latin America, & Asia. This is what set him & his work further apart from any Black leader & organization in the U.S. at the time. And this is what sparked the breadth of his influence & mapped out the future of his work.

Brother Malcolm toured North & East Afrika as well as the Middle East Region in the late Spring of 1964. He met with heads of state from several countries (i.e.: Kenya, Tanzania, Egypt, Ghana, Nigeria) before making his hajj to Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Here, he added "El-Hajj" to his Muslim name, "Malik El-Shabazz". This journey into the Motherland & Self brought Malcolm to the realization that his revolutionary vision/influence superceded any colour line.

Once he returned to the U.S, he infamously declared Pan-African unity amid struggle for freedom “by any means necessary.” This marked a turning point in Malcolm's life & revolutionary fight against White Supremacy on a global scale. He spent 6, albeit unsuccessful, months in Afrika petitioning the U.N. to investigate the Human Rights violations of Black Americans by the U.S. Government. From then on, threats to his safety and that of his family & the OUAA mounted. Still, he continued the fight until his assassination that was ultimately orchestrated & carried out by the CIA.

"If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary" - Malcolm X

Today, Brother Malcolm rests alongside his wife at the Ferncliff Cemetery in upstate NY.

We pour libations & give him💐 today as we celebrate him for his incomparable leadership, love, commitment, & sacrifice for the socioeconomic & sociopolitical freedom of our people.

Offering suggestions: libations of water, read/share his work, & prayers from the Quran

Note: offering suggestions are just that & strictly for veneration purposes only. Never attempt to conjure up any spirit or entity without proper divination/Mediumship counsel.

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Malcolm, Marcus, Marley and Martin: A look at connections between four icons of Keyamsha, the Awakening

Malcolm X…Marcus Garvey…Bob Marley…Martin Luther King, Jr. Those four names are synonymous with Keyamsha, the Awakening. Interestingly, their names all have the letter “M.” In this post we look at several facts that connect these men. What led to such connections? Coincidence? Synchronicity? Fate? Destiny? Something we can not begin to comprehend? All of the above? We start with the first and…

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Grassroots Garveyism: The Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920-1927

Grassroots Garveyism: The Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920-1927

The black separatist movement led by Marcus Garvey has long been viewed as a phenomenon of African American organization in the urban North. But as Mary Rolinson demonstrates, the largest number of Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) divisions and Garvey's most devoted and loyal followers were found in the southern Black Belt.

Tracing the path of organizers from northern cities to Virginia, and then from the Upper to the Deep South, Rolinson remaps the movement to include this vital but overlooked region. Rolinson shows how Garvey's southern constituency sprang from cities, countryside churches, and sharecropper cabins. Southern Garveyites adopted pertinent elements of the movement's ideology and developed strategies for community self-defense and self-determination.

These southern African Americans maintained a spiritual attachment to their African identities and developed a fiercely racial nationalism, building on the rhetoric and experiences of black organizers from the nineteenth-century South.

Garveyism provided a common bond during the upheaval of the Great Migration, Rolinson contends, and even after the UNIA had all but disappeared in the South in the 1930s, the movement's tenets of race organization, unity, and pride continued to flourish in other forms of black protest for generations.

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On this day in 2021...

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RUNOKO RASHIDI

Runoko Rashidi is an anthropologist and historian with a major focus on what he calls the Global African Presence--that is, Africans outside of Africa before and after enslavement. He is the author or editor of twenty-two books, the most recent of which are My Global Journeys in Search of the African Presence, Assata-Garvey and Me: A Global African Journey for Children in 2017 and The Black Image in Antiquityin 2019. His other works include Black Star: The African Presence in Early Europe, published by Books of Africa in London in November 2011 and African Star over Asia: The Black Presence in the East, published by Books of Africa in London in November 2012 and revised and reprinted in April 2013, Uncovering the African Past: The Ivan Van Sertima Papers, published by Books of Africa in 2015. His other works include the African Presence in Early Asia, co-edited by Dr. Ivan Van Sertima. Four of Runoko's works have been published in French.

As a traveler and researcher Dr. Rashidi has visited 124countries. As a lecturer and presenter, he has spoken insixty-sevencountries.

Runoko has worked with and under some of the most distinguished scholars of the past half-century, including Ivan Van Sertima, John Henrik Clarke, Asa G. Hilliard, Edward Scobie, John G. Jackson, Jan Carew and Yosef ben-Jochannan.

In October 1987 Rashidi inaugurated the First All-India Dalit Writer's Conference in Hyderabad, India.

In 1999 he was the major keynote speaker at the International Reunion of the African Family in Latin America in Barlovento, Venezuela.

In 2005 Rashidi was awarded an Honorary Doctorate degree, his first, by the Amen-Ra Theological Seminary in Los Angeles.

In August 2010 he was first keynote speaker at the First Global Black Nationalities Conference in Osogbo, Nigeria.

In December 2010 he was President and first speaker at the Diaspora Forum at the FESMAN Conference in Dakar, Senegal.

In 2018 he was named Traveling Ambassador to the Universal Negro Improvement Association & African Communities League RC 2020.

In 2020 he was named to the Curatorial and Academic boards of the Pan-African Heritage Museum.

He is currently doing major research on the African presence in the museums of the world.

As a tour leader he has taken groups to India, Australia, Fiji, Turkey, Jordan, Brazil, Egypt, Ghana, Togo, Benin, France, Belgium, England, Cote d'Ivoire, Namibia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Peru, Cuba, Luxembourg, Germany, Cameroon, the Netherlands, Spain, Morocco, Senegal, the Gambia,Guinea-Bissau,Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar.

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For more information write to Runoko@hotmail.com or call (323) 803-8663.

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