Among those who testified were Garvey’s sons. Then-Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-New York) testified: “Mr. Hoover, in his role as director of investigations on ‘Negro Activities,’ became ...

Civil rights advocates and lawmakers have long said that Mr. Garvey’s 1923 conviction for mail fraud was unjust, arguing that he was targeted for his work. By Erica L. Green President Biden ...

Garvey began her local political career in the 1990s by winning a seat on the Arlington School Board. In 2012, she emerged the victor in a County Board special election to succeed Barbara Favola ...

President Joe Biden made history on Sunday by posthumously pardoning Marcus Garvey, the trailblazing Black nationalist leader whose revolutionary vision shaped Pan-Africanism and inspired ...

Garvey returned to Jamaica hoping to start an industrial education school and established UNIA as the management arm. He wrote to Booker T. Washington and was invited to visit Tuskegee to learn ...

Dozens of businesses, cultural groups, and community groups are being forced to leave the historic Marcus Garvey Centre and find new premises due to a "fire risk" identified by Nottingham City ...

Former President Calvin Coolidge commuted his sentence in 1927. "Notably, Mr. Garvey created the Black Star Line, the first Black-owned shipping line and method of international travel ...

Mr. Garvey, who died in 1940, was a civil rights leader who was convicted of mail fraud in 1923 and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment, a sentence that was commuted by President Calvin ...

Former President Calvin Coolidge commuted his sentence in 1927. "Notably, Mr. Garvey created the Black Star Line, the first Black-owned shipping line and method of international travel, and founded ...