Finally done.” “We want to make sure that our children, grandchildren and children to come will recognize the fact that Marcus Garvey is our first national hero,” Nugent said. He said that ...

Marcus Garvey was a Jamaican civil rights activist, the founding father of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), and an owner of the Black Star Line shipping company.

KINGSTON, Jamaica — The quest for a U.S. presidential pardon for revolutionary Black nationalist leader Marcus Mosiah Garvey began more than 100 years ago, immediately after Garvey was convicted ...