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Time for the US to pardon Jamaican national hero
Once again, Jamaica asks Obama to pardon national hero Marcus Garvey.
16 May 2015 07:38 GMT | Human Rights, US & Canada, Africa, Jamaica
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Marcus Garvey sits in the back of a car in a parade through Harlem circa 1920 in New York City [Getty]
Marcus Garvey sits in the back of a car in a parade through Harlem circa 1920 in New York City [Getty]
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Hisham Aidi
Hisham Aidi teaches at Columbia University. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Rebel Music: Race, Empire and the New Muslim Youth Culture, a study of black internationalism and global youth culture.
@UptownBerber
In late March, Portia Simpson Miller, the prime minister of Jamaica, spoke to an audience of Jamaican Americans at St George's Episcopal Church in Manhattan. She addressed a range of issues. But when the prime minister was asked about Marcus Garvey, the Jamaican-born pan-African leader, and his deportation from the US in the 1920s, she responded passionately.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opi...083816204.html
Once again, Jamaica asks Obama to pardon national hero Marcus Garvey.
16 May 2015 07:38 GMT | Human Rights, US & Canada, Africa, Jamaica
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Marcus Garvey sits in the back of a car in a parade through Harlem circa 1920 in New York City [Getty]
Marcus Garvey sits in the back of a car in a parade through Harlem circa 1920 in New York City [Getty]
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Hisham Aidi
Hisham Aidi teaches at Columbia University. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Rebel Music: Race, Empire and the New Muslim Youth Culture, a study of black internationalism and global youth culture.
@UptownBerber
In late March, Portia Simpson Miller, the prime minister of Jamaica, spoke to an audience of Jamaican Americans at St George's Episcopal Church in Manhattan. She addressed a range of issues. But when the prime minister was asked about Marcus Garvey, the Jamaican-born pan-African leader, and his deportation from the US in the 1920s, she responded passionately.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opi...083816204.html