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From Dessalines to Garvey: the Battles of Psychological Liberation

January 11, 2022January 10, 2022 Kersuze Simeon-Jones African Diaspora, black intellectual history, Haiti

Over two centuries apart, Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Marcus Mosiah Garvey espoused ideas and expounded principles of liberation that descendants of

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‘The Untold Story of Marcus Garvey’: Interview with Filmmaker Roy T. Anderson

November 9, 2018November 11, 2018 Chris Shell #FilmFeatures, Jamaica, Marcus Garvey, Pan-Africanism, Rastafarianism

In today’s post, Christopher Shell, PhD Student in History at Michigan State University, interviews filmmaker Roy T. Anderson about his forthcoming

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Marcus Garvey’s Vision of Pan-Africanism

September 14, 2018September 18, 2018 Rupert Lewis Caribbean, Cuba, garvey, Garveyism, Universal Negro Improvement Association

This is an excerpt from Rupert Lewis’s Marcus Garvey (University of the West Indies Press, 2017). The book is part of the University

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Marcus Garvey: A New Biography on the Jamaican Black Nationalist

February 24, 2018March 1, 2018 Keisha N. Blain Activism, black internationalism, Garveyism, Pan-Africanism

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Colorism as Racism: Garvey, Du Bois and the Other Color Line

May 24, 2017May 26, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi Colorism, Marcus Garvey, racism, W.E.B. Du Bois

One hundred years ago this month, Marcus Mosiah Garvey and thirteen associates gathered in a Harlem basement to found the

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