Topic: Marcus Garvey

Dozens of reputed gang members arrested in Brooklyn

ABC 7 NY (WABC) - 20 days ago
Dozens of reputed gang members have been arrested in relation to a string of shootings in Brooklyn. . . . Police say 43 members of two Brownsville...

White House Rejects Pardon For Marcus Garvey

Hip Hop Wired - 148 days ago
White House Rejects Marcus Garvey Posthumous Pardon The White House isn't letting Marcus Garvey off the hook even after his demise. Donovan Parker...

SUV plows into 2-year-old girl

NY Daily News - 259 days ago
A 2-year-old girl was critically injured Monday when she chased a ball into a Brooklyn street and was hit by an SUV, police and witnesses said.....

Shelter expansion angers B'klyn locals

NY Daily News - 384 days ago
Neighbors, politicians and activists are up in arms over the city's plans to double the size of a 200-bed homeless men's shelter in...

DNA used to reveal MLK and Garvey's European lineage

The Grio - 397 days ago
Using the power of DNA, AfricanAncestry. com has traced the lineage of civil rights icons Marcus Garvey and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. back to...

Two Brownsville teens dead in gang war

NY Daily News - 460 days ago
Teens from a of Brooklyn housing complexes are locked in an ongoing turf war that has left two dead and several others wounded in recent months...

Assessing African-Americans' consideration for Africa

Helium - 463 days ago
In the early 1900s, Negroes migrated from southern states to escape racism and discrimination. He also felt that Negroes lost the sense of "self" after being forcibly removed from Africa and stripped of their ancestry, culture and history. Nevertheless, he started a ...

Zionism

Mahalo - 463 days ago
Zionism is an international political movement, formally founded by journalist Theodor Herzl, with the original goal of establishing a homeland for the Jewish people in what was Palestine . Formally established by Theodor Herzl Formally outlined in Der Judenstaat , published in 1896 Called ...

The history of black-on-black segregation

Helium - 463 days ago
The Great Migration started a monumental population shift in America. The lighter-skinned, civil rights pioneer, W.E.B. DuBois called black nationalist, Marcus Garvey, a "gorilla" and a "con man". DuBois self-financed the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ...

Biography: Marcus Garvey

Helium - 463 days ago
Marcus Mosiah Garvey was born in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica on August 17, 1887. Under Garvey's leadership, the UNIA set up a program aimed at improving the conditions of African ancestry at home and abroad. On August 17, 1918 the ...