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Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of Marcus Garvey’s Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World.

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Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of Marcus Garvey’s Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World

August 1, 2020 — This virtual production honoring the Life and Legacy of the Hon. Marcus Mosiah Garvey on the 100th Anniversary of the First Convention of the Colored Peoples of the World in New York’s Madison Square Garden, August, 1920 Brought to you by The Institute of the Black World 21st Century (IBW21) and the Pan-African Unity Dialogue (PAUD).

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Dr. Julius Garvey
Son of Marcus Mosiah Garvey
Nana Akufo-Addo
President of Ghana
H.E. Hage G. Geingob
President of the Republic of Namibia
H.E. Dr. Sam Nujoma
Founding President of the Republic of Namibia
Mayor Ras Baraka
Newark, New Jersey
Hon. P. J. Patterson
Former Prime Minister of Jamaica
Hon. David Commissiong
Barbados’s Ambassador to CARICOM
Prof. Rupert Lewis
University of the West Indies (UWI)
Prof. Carolyn Cooper
University of the West Indies (UWI)
Dr. Shani Roper
University of the West Indies (UWI)
Steven Golding
President of the UNIA Jamaica
Yvette Modestin
IBW21 & NAARC Member, Founder/Executive Director, Encuentro Diaspora
Dr. Ron Daniels
President of IBW21, Convener of NAARC and PAUD
Paradise Gray
X-CLAN, Founder, The Black Watch Movement
Don Rojas
Director of Communications & International Relations (IBW21)

Marcus Mosiah Garvey, A Virtual Event. Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of Marcus Garvey’s Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World. August 1, 2020, 7PM - 9PM EST

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Emancipation Day Message from Professor Sir Hilary Beckles Chairman of the CARICOM Reparations Commission

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By Professor Sir Hilary Beckles — The CARICOM Reparations Commission (CRC) joins with all citizens of the English-speaking Caribbean and all others who understand and promote racial justice and equality in observing 1st August as Emancipation Day. We do this at a most important and inspiring time in our history when the Black Lives Matter and Reparations movements are sweeping the globe. We do this also while the COVID-19 pandemic…

Vantage Point: COVID-19 and Institutional Racism Continued and Hip Hop Activist for Social Justice

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Vantage Point Radio July 27, 2020 — On this edition of Vantage Point, host Dr. Ron Daniels aka The Professor talks with guests Dr. Leon McDougle and Paradise Gray Topics COVID-19 and Institutional Racism Continued Hip Hop Activists for Social Justice Guests Dr. Leon McDougle, President-Elect National Medical Association, Columbus, OH Paradise Gray, X-CLAN Founder, The Black Watch Movement, Pittsburgh, PA Ways to listen Live (Radio) — Mondays 3-4PM on…

Five elder BLM activists arrested in Alabama: Black Family Summit Responds

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July 21, 2020 The Honorable Steven Reed, Mayor, City of Montgomery 103 North Perry Street, Montgomery, Alabama 36104 Mr. Ernest Finley, Chief, Montgomery Police Department 320 North Ripley Street Montgomery, Alabama 36106 Dear Mayor Reed and Officer Finley: We, the representatives of the Black Family Summit, the Alabama Save Our Selves Movement for Justice and Democracy, the Alabama Black Lives Matter Movement, and the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, Inc. SDPC,…

Five elder BLM activists arrested in Alabama: Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference Responds

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July 20, 2020 The Honorable Steven Reed Mayor, City of Montgomery, AL Mr. Ernest Finley Chief, Montgomery Police Department Dear Mayor Reed and Chief Finley, Well over 40 years ago, a few of us, seriously engaged in the continuing struggle for liberation of people of African descent in the United States, began to grapple with the profound question, “What will happen in the coming years when the new master looks…

Fighting to Save Lives in Alabama

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SOS and Black Lives Matters Leaders Voluntarily Appear to be Arrested. All Five SOS and Black Lives Matter Turned Selves in to Montgomery Police Montgomery, AL, July 20, 2020 – All five leaders of SOS, the Save OurSelves Movement for Justice and Democracy, and Black Lives Matter showed up at high noon today at the City of Montgomery Police Station to voluntarily turn themselves in on warrants issued late Thursday…

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Strike for Black Lives; Unions and Racial Justice

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SEIU, the Teamsters, AFT, CWA, UFCW, UNITE HERE, ATU and the UFW joined dozens of other labor and community organizations in a national Strike for Black Lives. Meanwhile, unions are pushing the fight for racial justice beyond resolutions. By Martin Belam; Stephanie Luce — From Resolutions to Transformation: How Unions Are Organizing for Racial Justice Tens of thousands of Americans strike in protest over racial inequality 1 Tens of thousands…

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It’s a crying shame. No, it’s a damn shame.

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By Sen. Hank Sanders — It’s a crying shame. No. It’s a damn shame. It’s a damn shame what the Mayor of Montgomery and its police did to two Black women leaders. More broadly speaking, it’s a damn shame what these same forces did to four African American leaders and one White leader of Jewish background. All were fighting heroically to save hundreds of lives in Alabama per year. It’s…

Despite Everything Biden Still Can’t Pry Some Blacks Loose from Trump

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By Earl Ofari Hutchinson — Since George Floyd was slain there have been ten national live voter polls taken. The polls predictably show that Biden has a whopping lead over Trump among Black voters. But they also show that a lot of Blacks still aren’t buying Biden. They’re buying Trump. There are just enough of them to raise the question why and to raise the worry that they could cause…

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Lifting Up Lowery, Vivian and Lewis: Living the Legacy, Freeing the People

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By Dr. Maulana Karenga — The recent passing of Rev. Joseph Lowery (October 6, 1921 - March 27, 2020), Rev. Cordy Tindell (C.T.) Vivian (July 30, 1924 - July 17, 2020, and Rep. John Lewis (February 21, 1940 - July 17, 2020), three major leaders of the civil rights phase of the Black Freedom Movement, rightfully causes and encourages us to lift them up and to recount and reflect on…

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Why the Black Lives Matter movement doesn’t want a singular leader

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"We don't need someone in the Senate or House to try to build their political career off of this moment." By Laura Barrón-López — In 2015, thousands of Black activists gathered in Ohio for the first national Black Lives Matter convention to consider where the movement would direct its energy. Attendees in the crowd held up red construction paper to signal “no” to a handful of narrow options, like focusing…

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H.R.40 - Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act

House Resolution 40 Why We Can’t Wait | #ReparationsNow

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Editor's Note: The ongoing mass protests against police violence and racial inequality demand that we no longer be comfortable with the status quo. We need a national reckoning with structural racism in all its forms, which permeate every aspect of our society and create separate conditions for Black and white life in the US. House Resolution (HR) 40 is the answer to the moment we are in. It would establish a commission…

If Trump Wins, It Is the End of Democracy

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NYU fascism expert explains the next moves in Trump's "authoritarian playbook" — and says it's almost too late. By Chauncey Devega, Salon — At the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, there's a poster which identifies "The 12 Early Warning Signs of Fascism." Here are the criteria: Powerful and continuing nationalism Disdain for human rights Identification of enemies as a unifying cause Rampant sexism Controlled mass media Obsession with national security Religion and…

The Rev. C.T. Vivian: At Age 95, Gone Too Soon

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Cordy Tindale "C. T." Vivian July 30, 1934 - July 17, 2020. By The SDPC — The Rev. C.T. Vivian, who made history the day he was brutally confronted by Sheriff Jim Clark in 1965 in Selma after 1400 black voters were prohibited from registering to vote, has made his transition and sits with the ancestors. Rev. Vivian, who was a 2016 recipient of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, Inc.…

"Why would $300 keep me from voting?" asks Robert Peoples of Mobile, Alabama.

A poll tax by any other name

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"Why would $300 keep me from voting?" asks Robert Peoples of Mobile, Alabama. By Dana Sweeney, Facing South — Robert Peoples remembers when African Americans won the right to vote in Alabama back in 1965. Though he was only 13 years old at the time, he had grown up in Mobile with a front-row seat to history as it was forged by a generation of ordinary Alabamians who won extraordinary…

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SAT AUG 1, 2020 @7PM EST — Watch Marcus Mosiah Garvey, A Virtual Forum

If Trump Wins, It Is the End of Democracy

Vantage Point Radio

The Rev. C.T. Vivian: At Age 95, Gone Too Soon

Rapper T.I. Demands Lloyd’s of London Pay Reparations to Descendants of Slaves

When Cops Kill White People, Black Lives Still Matter

A poll tax by any other name

John Lewis, front-line civil rights leader and eminence of Capitol Hill, dies at 80

Member of NAARC Assaulted by Racist Mob in Tulsa, OK

An open letter to White Evangelical leaders

Tele-visionary Blackness

Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of Marcus Garvey’s Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World

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Still on This Journey: The Vision and Mission of Dr. Ron Daniels

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