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Facts about The Most Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey

Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr was born on August 17th 1887 in St Ann’s Bay, Jamaica

His parents were Marcus Mosiah Garvey Snr, a stone mason and Sarah Jane Richards, a domestic worker

The Garvey’s had 11 children, nine of whom died in early childhood

Only Marcus Garvey and his eldest sister Indiana lived to adulthood

Marcus Mosiah Garvey’s second wife was Amy Jacques Garvey (1895-1973).They married in New York in 1922

She was his personal secretary. Amy Jacques played key organizational roles in the UNIA and was instrumental in teaching people about Marcus Garvey after he died

She and Garvey had 2 sons Marcus Garvey Jnr and Julius Winston Garvey

Garvey came to England in 1912

Marcus Garvey worked at the offices of the African Times and Orient Review journal under the leadership of Duse Mohammed Ali, the famous Black nationalist and journalist

The African Times and Orient Review was the first political journal produced by and for Black people ever published in Britain

It was produced during 1912-1913 and 1917-1918 on a monthly basis and was printed in Fleet Street in London.

Marcus Garvey returned to Jamaica from England in July 1914

With the help of an associate Enos J. Sloly and about four others, he created the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League and launched it on 1st August 1914 which is Emancipation Day in British-ruled Caribbean

The first UNIA division was formed in New York in May 1917

Within a month, the organization had 2 million members all over the United States. By 1920, the U.N.I.A. had 1,100 chapters in 40 countries around the world such as UK, Cuba, Panama, Costa Rica, Ghana

By 1926, the membership of the U.N.I.A. had grown to over 11 million members

Marcus Garvey built the largest Black organization in history

Garvey and other Black activists were partly inspired by the Irish movement for independence from English rule and thus named the UNIA headquarters Liberty Hall, located at:

114 West 138th Street in New York City, the New York City Liberty Hall had a seating capacity of six thousand. It was dedicated on July 27, 1919

Garvey held nightly meetings at Liberty Hall that drew up to 6000 people at a time

For the entire month of August 1920, Marcus Garvey’s U.N.I.A.-ACL organization held its first international convention in New York City

Most events were held at the New York Liberty Hall

It’s biggest events were held at New York City’s world-famous Madison Square Garden

An estimated 25,000 Black people attended the convention from all around the world

Delegations from 25 African countries were in attendances as well

The convention adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World which was one of the earliest and most complete document advocating human rights and detailing the abuses against Black people worldwide

The document made demands such as:

The freedom of Africa for the Negro people of the world

The condemnation of the term ‘ni***r’ and stipulation that ‘Negro’ be spelled with a capital N

No taxation without representation.

Equal treatment before the law

Marcus Garvey launched the UNIA’s first major commercial venture, the Black Star Line Steamship Corporation in New York in 1919

In 1920, Garvey established the Negro Factories Corporation and offered stock for African Americans to buy

He raised one million dollars for the project. He wanted to produce everything that a nation needed so that African Americans could completely rely on their own efforts

It generated income and provided jobs by its numerous enterprises, including a chain of grocery stores and restaurants, steam laundry, tailor shop, dress making shop, millinery store (clothing, fashion, hats, accessories, etc) publishing house and doll factory

In New York City alone, Garvey owned several buildings, owned a fleet of trucks and had over 1,000 Black people working in his businesses

Marcus Garvey’s U.N.I.A. also operated the Phyllis Wheatley Hotel (3-13 West 136th Street, New York, NY)

In 1928, Garvey created the People’s Political Party (PPP) which was Jamaica first modern political party and the first to defend the interests of the Black majority

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09/21/2020

Nobody Hears: The Legacy of Darren Seals

PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 7, 2020 by TORRAINE WALKER

On September 6, 2016 Ferguson activist Darren Seals was murdered. In many ways, his death marked the end of one phase of the movement that began with the killing of Mike Brown and the beginning of another that frustrates people who were active from its beginning.

Ifirst became aware of Darren Seals when he showed up on my Twitter timeline in 2016, calling out people he felt were exploiting Mike Brown’s death for personal gain.

At first I ignored what he had to say because his criticisms sounded like petty jealousy and unwarranted personal attacks.

Over time, once I learned of his being one of the first people on the scene after Mike Brown’s killing and on the very front lines in Ferguson before the cameras showed up, I began to pay more attention to what he had to say.

So many of his points sounded credible that I began to check for his tweets regularly.

The way he attacked people made me hold off from engaging with him too much, but I listened.

By the time I finally decided to reach out to him publicly he was murdered, shot dead and left in a burning car, one of many Ferguson activists killed in a similar fashion.

Darren Seals’ death brought him the kind of mainstream media attention that eluded him while he was alive. His critiques of the BLM organization weren’t addressed much in the press and in hindsight it’s easy to see why. To an outsider, Darren probably seemed like an extremely problematic hater, although the challenges and charges he made have been echoed by others. I won’t concern myself with that, as that story is still playing out. What concerns me is that the erasure of Darren’s life, work, and death, feels like the continued marginalization of already marginalized people.

What is obvious is that once Ferguson became , the voice of protest began to shift from the raw righteous anger of locals to the slogans, photo ops, and polished academic discussions that have become a trademark of this latest version of the civil rights movement.

At the administrative level, it appears that arbitrary ideas of intersectionality and allyship took priority over protesting the police killings of Black men and women, to the point that the movement has became so vague as to be unidentifiable to the people whose issues brought it to prominence.

Voices like Darrens were overshadowed by those who knew better how to market a moment, many of whom are clueless about the everyday reality of being poor and Black. That reality ain’t about politeness. It’s about survival. People in places like Ferguson, Baltimore, and Baton Rouge are fighting to stay alive and people with their backs against the wall ain’t got time to worry about whether they’re being “problematic”.

Darren was excellent at articulating that real life frustration. True, he rubbed a lot of people the wrong way and he was not media trained, but he was a real one who loved his city and his people. And while I didn’t agree with everything he said, that love and realness was undeniable. It was a realness that was a little too real for people who aren’t familiar with it.

For all the talk from modern day activists about abandoning respectability politics, so much current movement energy is anchored in trying to enforce moral absolutes that don’t connect to the real world.

So many activists have internalized the idea that only the deaths of “perfect” victims are worthy of protest, and only “perfect” spokespeople are worthy of attention, when the state that murders us doesn’t make those distinctions.

If Black Lives truly Matter, that concept has to include the lives of imperfect, “problematic” Black men and women who we don’t agree with and who’s ideology and upbringing aren’t the same as our own.

It has to respect the people in the streets who may not speak the King’s English but can create a movement and voice their demands better than their self-appointed translators.

It means listening to and fighting for Black men like Darren Seals while they’re alive, before they become hashtags.

As for what Darren felt and his concerns, do your research and draw your own conclusions.

This essay was originally published in 2018. It has been updated and edited for clarity. -Ed.

Photo by Faces of the Movement On September 6, 2016 Ferguson activist Darren Seals was murdered. In many ways, his death marked the end of one phase of the movement that began with the killing of Mike Brown and the beginning of another that frustrates people who were active from its beginning.

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10/31/2018

10. 31. 2018 Ferguson Activist Melissa McKinnies' Son Found Dead From Lynching

In a Facebook post, McKinnies shared graphic images of her own son hanging from a tree.

She is a former member of Ferguson grassroots activist group Lost Voices.

Jones’ death is reminiscent of the string of Ferguson activist deaths that have occurred since 2014.

DeAndre Joshua was found in his car with two gunshot wounds to the head the night of the Ferguson verdict in 2014.

Two years later, Darren Seals was found dead with two gunshot wounds to the head in his car too. In both instances, the cars were set on fire.

In 2017, Edward Crawford was found shot to death in his car too.

The Ferguson activist, who participated in numerous protests in Ferguson following Michael Brown's death, says she found her son Danye Jones, 24, lynched.

10/31/2018

Edward Crawford, an activist known for throwing a tear gas canister back at police officers in a viral photo during the 2014 unrest in Ferguson, Missouri was found dead on Thursday, May 4, from what police officers are describing as a "self-inflicted" gun wound.

Crawford had participated in the protests that followed the death of Michael Brown at the hand of Officer Darren Wilson.

According to the St. Louis Police Department, the 27-year-old shot himself in the head after talking with two women about "personal matters."

Crawford's father disputes the claims, telling the St. Louis Post Dispatch that his son was in good spirits when he saw him two days prior, and believes that the shooting was accidental.

Ferguson police are "being hush hush" about his son's death, he said.

This is a disturbing trend.