HOLD THE DATE – JNA VIRTUAL BLACK HISTORY MONTH FORUM ON SUNDAY FEBRUARY 20, 2022 at 4:00 P.M. – 5:30 P.M. Topic: THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF MARCUS GARVEY TO THE WORLD & EFFORTS FOR HIS POSTHUMOUS EXONERATION
Ms. Nzinga Garvey, daughter of Dr. Julius Garvey, Order of Jamaica (O.J.), and grand daughter of the Rt. Hon. Marcus Garvey, will be the keynote speaker.
To find out more about the initiative dedicated to gathering 100,000 signatures to request an official response from the White House and President Biden for a posthumous exoneration of Marcus Garvey, go to justice4garvey.org
The collection of signatures will commence on 1st February 2022, in line with Black History Month, and will continue for a 30-day period, ending on 2nd March 2022.justice4garvey.org
According to Ms. Garvey:
“To be quite frank, it took me watching the motion picture Judas and The Black Messiah to truly come to terms with the pain and the promise of my own family’s narrative. There were aspects of our story that didn’t come into clear focus until I watched, and re-watched, the brave and the barbaric acts that emerge when one dares to lean into service of both race and humanity. But my family’s story is also an origin story, marking the alpha, the beginning of modern mass social justice movements.
My grandfather, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, chose to meet the challenges of his time with an audacious response to the tyranny of people of color worldwide. Cry, as I often do, when I think of the magnitude of his vision and singleness of his purpose; to lead an oppressed people to reclaim their glory in order to serve humanity