Category: Marcus Garvey
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🇰🇪‘Holy Herb’: Kenya’s Rastafarians Fight To Decriminalize Cannabis
Kenya’s Rastafarian community returned to the High Court in November, pressing for the decriminalization of cannabis in religious worship. They argue that the country’s narcotics laws violate their constitutional rights to privacy and faith. Despite cannabis’s central role in Rastafarian worship, adherents face persistent criminalization rooted in colonial-era laws that branded the herb as a…
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Massachusetts African American Leaders Launch Drive to Restore U.S. Citizenship Rights for Liberians
Prominent African American leaders in Massachusetts have launched a bold campaign calling on Washington to fully restore citizenship rights and permanent residency protections for Liberians living in the United States. The movement, backed by civic organizations, clergy, and diaspora advocates, marks a renewed push to address what they describe as decades of “administrative limbo” affecting…
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Paper Genocide: When U.S. Bureaucrats Reclassified 500,000+ Native Americans as Black to Steal Their Land
Between 1830 and 1946, U.S. government officials systematically reclassified an estimated 500,000 to 750,000 Native Americans as “Negro/Black” through census manipulations, vital records tampering, and tribal roll exclusions—a scale of “paper genocide” that exceeded the roughly 388,000–450,000 Africans imported directly during the transatlantic slave trade (1619–1808).[1][2][3] This bureaucratic erasure wasn’t random; it was engineered to…
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Generations of Resistance: D’Angelo, Bobby Seale and the Blueprint for Revolutionary Education
A Historic Convergence in Oakland In a powerful meeting of artistic and activist legacies, Bobby Seale, the 86-year-old co-founder of the Black Panther Party, recently welcomed D’Angelo for a profound dialogue about racial injustice at the very birthplace of the movement—Oakland, California. As the R&B star walked the streets where the Panthers once organized community…
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🇺🇸 Where Did the Money Go? Dr. Umar Johnson Faces Scrutiny Over Missing Funds for Prince Hall Memorial Academy
Pan African News Network For years, Dr. Umar Johnson, a prominent Pan-African psychologist and activist, has galvanized Black communities with his vision of Prince Hall Memorial Academy—a proposed institution dedicated to educating and empowering young Black boys. However, as millions of dollars in donations poured in, the school remains unbuilt, and frustrated donors are demanding…
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Documentary Review: Malcolm X (1978) by Gil Noble – A Timeless Pan-African Chronicle
Reviewed for Pan African News Blog Gil Noble’s 1978 documentary Malcolm X, produced for Like It Is on WABC-TV in collaboration with McGraw-Hill Films, remains one of the most compelling and comprehensive portraits of the revolutionary leader. Noble, a pioneering Black journalist, crafts a gripping narrative that not only chronicles Malcolm X’s life but also…
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Feeding the Revolution: How the Black Panther Party Outpaced the U.S. Government in Serving the People
By Historical Wire Tap | Pan-African News Blog In the late 1960s and early 1970s, as Black communities across the United States struggled under the weight of poverty, police brutality, and systemic neglect, a new kind of revolution was taking place—not with guns, but with groceries. The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, founded in 1966…
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Biden Grants Clemency to Marcus Garvey: A Long-Awaited Victory for Pan-African History
President Joe Biden has taken a historic step by granting posthumous clemency to Marcus Mosiah Garvey, a towering figure in the global Pan-African movement. This act serves not only as a recognition of Garvey’s unjust conviction but also as an acknowledgment of his enduring contributions to the liberation and empowerment of African descendants worldwide. The…
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The Forgotten Kemetic Tale: The Birth of Ra’s Light
Long ago, before the land of Kemet and the Nile flowed, before Ma’at brought balance to the cosmos, there existed only the dark void of Nu, the primordial waters of chaos. Within this timeless expanse, the great Neter Osiris, the lord of life, death, and rebirth, wandered with his consorts, the radiant Isis and the…
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Enemies of Pan-African Consciousness: Lessons from History and the Celestial Alignments
The arc of Pan-African consciousness has always been shaped by forces both earthly and celestial, as if our struggles are written not just in history but in the stars themselves. In tracing the journeys of leaders like Huey Newton, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., William Richard Tolbert, and Marcus Garvey, we find a sobering…
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