(BPRW) THE CENTER FOR GLOBAL AFRICA and DELAWARE’S DIASPORA LEADERSHIP TO HOLD A PRESS CONFERENCE TO ELEVATE THE REQUEST FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN TO EXONERATE PAN AFRICAN LEADER, MARCUS MOSIAH GARVEY
– The event is set for Thursday, January 2, 2025, Peter Spencer Plaza @ The Garvey Flag in Wilmington, Delaware. Several partner organizations, officials, civic and community leaders will stand in solidarity and provide remarks. –
(Black PR Wire) Wilmington, Delaware – On the heels of President Joe Biden’s recent pardoning of his son and commutation of several sentences from federal death row, 21 Members of Congress have formally appealed to President Biden in a letter to exonerate Marcus Garvey for “mail fraud in a case that was marred by prosecutorial and governmental misconduct.”
Along with notable legal scholars, business and community leaders nationwide, the Center for Global Africa (CGA) led by Professor Ezrah Aharone, Founder & Chair, Center for Global Africa, USA and the Marcus Garvey Institute for Human Development (MGIHD) led by Dr. Julius Garvey the surviving son of Marcus Garvey will host a press conference to amplify Delaware voices who are calling on President Joe Biden to take action.
This empowering event takes place on Thursday, January 2, 2025 from 3 – 4 PM (EST), Peter Spencer Plaza @ The Garvey Flag, located at 800 N. French Street in Wilmington, Delaware.
Garvey is considered to have organized the largest global Africa-Diaspora movement for economic independence and human rights, which offers a model of Africa-Diaspora engagement that “should be validated rather than criminalized” says Professor Aharone. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stated Garvey “was the first man on a mass scale and level to give millions of Negroes a sense of dignity and destiny, and make the Negro feel he was somebody.” He was wrongly convicted of $25 mail fraud in 1923 and given a five-year sentence. While serving his prison sentence President Calvin Coolidge commuted his remaining time amidst protests from Black Americans. In 1927, he was deported from the United States to Jamaica.
For decades Black leaders have petitioned the U.S. government and presidents to address this injustice. According to Dr. Julius Garvey “President Biden now has the opportunity to correct this historical wrong and restore the legacy of my father whose philosophy and practices influenced African leaders like Presidents Kwame Nkrumah, Nnamdi Azikiwe, and Nelson Mandela.” Garvey also founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) which remarkably had up to 6 million supporters. He incorporated the Black Star Line, the Negro Factories Corporation, and the UNIA in the state of Delaware where this press event will be held.
The Center for Global Africa recently released The Garvey Legacy Film Trailer www.legacymovementfilm.com to support the exoneration movement and mobilize Delaware’s black leadership to align with national and international networks that are advocating for reparative justice for Marcus Garvey. On November 19th, Dr. Julius Garvey released Justice 4 Garvey, a collection of informative essays and personal narratives about the senior Garvey’s life and work, demonstrating his essential influence on current social justice movements.
WHAT: Press Conference/Media & Community Event to Elevate the Request for President Biden to exonerate the Black Civil Rights Leader, Marcus Garvey.
WHEN: Thursday, January 2, 2025 | 3 – 4 PM (EST)
WHERE: Peter Spencer Plaza @ The Garvey Flag, 800 N. French Street, Wilmington, Delaware
CONTACT: Alicia Clark | (302) 540-0954 | aclark@centerforglobalafrica.com
Bernadette Morris | (877) BLACKPR | newsroom@blackprwire.com
About The Center for Global Africa
The Center for Global Africa (CGA), www.centerforglobalafrica.com headquartered in Delaware, is a Sixth Region think tank and Pan-HBCU consortium with governance, policy, and socioeconomic concentrations that engages in research, consultancy, advocacy, and enterprising practices for shared U.S.-Africa-Diaspora development.
About the Marcus Garvey Institute for Human Development
The MGIHD educates humans to their full potential with focus on leadership and sustainable civilized living to solve complex social challenges, while recognizing humans as the highest manifestation of divine creativity as spiritual, mental, and physical beings.
The Marcus Garvey Institute for Human Development (MGI) which is founded and chaired by the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey’s sole surviving son, Dr. Julius Garvey, has partnered with the Center for Global Africa (CGA), which was founded and chaired by Professor Ezrah Aharone. The partnership aims to infuse contemporary Africa-Diaspora engagements with the originality of Pan-African purpose and practices of Garveyism, in alignment with the sovereign work and precepts of Dr. Martin R. Delany and other unsung Africa-Diaspora personifiers of Pan African ideals and leadership. The partnership builds upon the CGA’s strategic partnerships and global operations that include the African Union (AU) and advancing Agenda 2063. Agenda 2063 is the AU’s 50-year development blueprint that incorporates the involvement and expertise of Africa’s worldwide Diaspora, which the AU now designates as Africa’s “Sixth Region.”
Below is the link to a brief trailer film – under five minutes- that provides the captivating story of the Marcus Garvey Exoneration Campaign. We invite you to explore his profound impact on Black empowerment globally, and witness the essence of his life through powerful visuals and narratives. Do watch it and join the movement of voices and leaders around the world calling for the U.S. Government to address this grave injustice and honor the legacy of one of the world’s greatest Pan-African Leaders. Here is the link: https://www.legacymovementfilm.com/?wix-vod-video-id=082edadfcc134d6fab2cb123662c2cb7&wix-vod-comp-id=comp-lzy9auax
To find out more about The Center for Global Africa, contact Alicia Clark, Director of Global Partnerships, at (302) 540-0954.
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