Happy Birthday to the Hon. Marcus Garvey and Happy Universal African Flag Day to the Black World! Marcus Mosiah Garvey (August 17, 1887 – June 10, 1940), was a Jamaican-born…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Part 2. My interest in and embrace of Kiswahili as a pan-African language of choice raised questions of how best to communicate this choice and…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Part 1. The rapid rise of the Swahili language to global reach and significance reflected in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)…
Streamed Live Feb 28, 2022 — Join us as we discuss expanding Black History Month in Black America to Africa, the Caribbean, Central and South America and the Diaspora as…
Monday, Feb 28, 2022 — On this edition of Vantage Point, host Dr. Ron Daniels aka The Professor is joined by special guests Dr. Haki Madhubuti and Don Rojas Topic…
By Denise Oliver Velez, Daily Kos — I’ve been watching conversations on social media surrounding the need to include Caribbean History, along with Afro-Latin American history, as part of what…
We of the Pan African Unity Dialogue (PAUD), an initiative of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century (IBW) express our resolute condemnation of the recent military coup in…
Is a united Africa, freed from the legacy of colonialism, possible? The Pan-African movement has been advocated by many different voices, underpinned by a belief in the common destiny in…
When Marcus Garvey died in 1940 the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations of her African colonies. Marcus Garvey’s avocation of…
Thirty-four years, almost to the day, since the shocking killing of Burkina Faso’s then President, Thomas Sankara, 14 men are going on trial, accused of complicity in the murder of…
The cardiothoracic and vascular surgeon Julius Garvey, BSc’57, MDCM’61, has lived a storied life—and a new fund for medical students at McGill will celebrate those contributions. By Diana Kwon, McGill…
History was made on September 7th 2021, when the inaugural Africa-CARICOM Summit was held virtually under the theme ‘Unity Across Continents and Oceans: Opportunities for Deepening Integration’. The meeting, which…