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Ayiti Orientation
Haiti is the only case in recorded history where a formerly enslaved people rose up against their oppressors andmilitarily defeated them to then form an independent nation in 1804. While Haiti is the second independent country in the Americas after the United States...
Top 10 Things About Hon. Marcus Mosiah Garvey
ORGANIZER: Marcus Garvey was the World's Greatest Organizer as he was able to organize more than 12 million Africans worldwide.HISTORY: Mr. Garvey used history to inspire and educate, and not to dwell in it.A BETTER DAY: Mr. Garvey sold the Black Man to himself so...
Declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World
Preamble Be It Resolved That the Negro people of the world, through their chosenrepresentatives in convention assembled in Liberty Hall, in the City of New York andUnited States of America, from August 1 to August 31, in the year of Our Lord onethousand nine hundred...
Hon. Marcus Mosiah Garvey’s Famous Quotes
AFRICAAfrica for the Africans… those at home and those abroad! AFRICA DESTINYLet Africa be our guiding star… Our star of Destiny AFRICA HAS PRODUCEDAfrica has produced countless numbers of men and women, in war and in peace, whose lustre and braveryoutshine that of...
PG Michael R. Duncan Bio
On August 19, 2016, the 10th successor to Hon. Marcus Mosiah Garvey was elected President General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. His name is Michael R. Duncan. As such, it is with great pleasure and pride that we (re)introduce the President General,...
Garvey’s Ideological Son
He was born in 1913 in the Dominican Republic but operated in Harlem from 1929 until his death in 1966. For three decades -1940’s, 1950’s, and 1960’s - he became the single most important individual responsible for keeping the works of Marcus Garvey alive. Carlos A....
Ghana Year of Return
New Yorkers share their experience visiting Ghana and Liberia with the UNIA-ACL Guided 2019 Year of Return Tour! Inspired to go? Book your spot for the 2020 tour now! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olyueIhHM70&feature=emb_title
Garvey First Message to the Negroes of the World from Atlanta Prison Tuesday, February 10, 1925
All I have I have given to you. I have sacrificed my home and my loving wife for you. I entrust her to your charge, to protect and defend her in my absence. She is the bravest little woman I know. She has suffered and sacrificed with me for you; therefore, please do...
Boukman’s Prayer
The God who created the earth; who created the sun that gives us light. The God who holds up the ocean; who makes the thunder roar. Our God who has ears to hear.You who are hidden in the clouds; who watch us from where you are.You see all that the whites have made us...
Ayiti
Haiti is the only case in recorded history where a formerly enslaved people rose up against their oppressors and militarily defeated them to then form an independent nation in 1804.While Haiti is the second independent country in the Americas after the United States...
African Fundamentalism By The Hon. Marcus Mosiah Garvey
The time has come for the Black man to forget and cast behind him his hero worship and adoration of other races, and to start out immediately to create and emulate heroes of his own. We must canonize our own martyrs and elevate to positions of fame and honor Black men...
From the desk of 1st Assistant President General Raymond S. Dugué July 20th Holy Day of Obligation
In 1914 on Wednesday, June 17, the S.S. [Steam Ship] Trent departed from Southampton, England. From the passenger manifest, we know that there were three third-class passengers on the S.S. Trent. One of the three was Marcus Mosiah Garvey. The S.S. Trent stopped in...
From the desk of 1st Assistant President General Raymond S. Dugué June 23rd
At approximately 5:30 PM on Friday, August 17, 1962, the Honorable Carlos A. Cooks officiated over the ground breaking ceremony of the Marcus Garvey Memorial Building located on the south side of 141st Street, approximately one hundred feet east of Eighth Avenue,...
From the desk of 2nd Assistant President General Raymond S. Dugué June 10, 1940 – June 10, 2020
It has been exactly eighty years since the passing of Marcus Garvey. Hon. Marcus Mosiah Garvey transitioned into ancestor ship on Monday, June 10, 1940 while living in London, England. Mr. Garvey had risen to the apex of African Liberation starting in 1920 on the...
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First Message to the Negroes of the World from Atlanta Prison Tuesday, February 10, 1925
All I have I have given to you. I have sacrificed my home and my loving wife for you. I entrust her to your charge, to protect and defend her in my absence. She is the bravest little woman I know. She has suffered and sacrificed with me for you; therefore, please do...
Marcus Garvey: ‘Look for me in the whirlwind’, Freedom speech – (circa) 1924
1924 (speculation), Harlem, New York, USA There is no future for a people who deny their past. My fore parents, My Grandparents, My Mother, My Father did not suffer and die to give me an education to slight, oppress or discourage my people. Whatsoever education I...
Adoration of The Red, Black & Green
Here's to this flag of mineThe red, black and greenHopes in its future brightAfrican has seen Here's to the Red of it.Great nations shall know of itIn time to comeRed Blood shall flow of it,Historians shall write of it.Great flag of mine. Here's to the Black of it.400...