marcus garvey

Chance The Rapper and Vic Mensa have partnered on an upcoming festival that will take over West Africa in 2023. The Black Star Line Festival is inspired by Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey and will take place in Ghana, West Africa at the historic Black Star Square on Jan. 6, 2023. In the duo’s press release, […]

Winston Duke has been tapped to play the role of the famous political activist Marcus Garvey in an upcoming biopic being produced by Amazon Studios. Duke is a gifted actor and has starred on the silver and digital screens in productions like Black Panther and Us. According to Deadline, this biopic is something to look […]

Marcus Garvey was born on August 17, 1887, in Saint Ann’s Bay, Jamaica. In 1914, he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) with the goal of uniting all of African diaspora to “establish a country and absolute government of their own.”