Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association form a critical link in black America's centuries-long struggle for freedom, justice, and equality. As the leader of the largest organized ...

By Megan Sayles AFRO Staff Writer msayles@afro.com More than six decades after his 1965 assassination, El-Hajj Malik ...

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By invoking the American Revolution, twentieth-century anticolonial figures connected their project with the movement for ...

Let’s start here. With a corner. The corner of 38th and Chicago Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minnesota. That’s where it ...

How a Wall Street messenger became Harlem’s most unlikely patron.

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Before he freed a nation, Kwame Nkrumah was a young reader who discovered that ideas could be as powerful as armies and that liberation had to […] ...

For years, Juan Machado moved from shelter to shelter, never certain where he would land next. Now, he opens the door to something different - a place of his own that represents stability, safety and ...