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Native African Union of America, Inc. Room 220, Sign, 1920′s

Posted on May 19, 2013 by Harlem World Magazine | Leave a comment

The Native African Union of America, Inc., sign was photographed near Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association offices on 135th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Blvd., in the 1920′s (source). Continue reading →

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Tagged Harlem, Marcus Garvey, United States, New York City, Africa, Seventh Avenue (Manhattan), Back-to-Africa movement, Native African Union of America, Universal Negro Improvement Association, Negro Club, African Union, African people

Happy Birthday Harlem’s Hubert Henry Harrison

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Harlem World Magazine | 1 Comment

A Harlem Original

Hubert Harrison (1883-1927) is one of the truly important figures of early twentieth-century America. A brilliant writer, orator, educator, critic, and political activist, he was described by the historian Joel A. Rogers, in “World’s Great Men of Color” as “the foremost Afro-American intellect of his time.” Continue reading →

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Posted in Books, books, Harlem, harlem books

Tagged african american, Garvey, Harrison, Hubert Harrison, Joel A. Rogers, Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King, Philip Randolph, United States

African Diaspora World Tourism Awards and Travel Expo to be Held in Atlanta

Posted on March 2, 2013 by Harlem World Magazine | Leave a comment

The online magazine AfricanDiasporaTourism.com (ADT) in association with the AD King Foundation will present the African Diaspora World Tourism Awards & Travel Show Expo in Atlanta, Ga. (USA) on April 26-28, 2013. Continue reading →

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Tagged Africa, African Diaspora, African Diaspora World Tourism Awards, Atlanta, Award ceremony, Black people, Bob and Rita Marley, Caribbean, Danny Glover, Dr. Asa Hilliard, Dr. Babs Onabanjo, Dr. Jean Ping, Dr. Julius Garvey, Dr. Maulana Karenga, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, former Ambassador Andy Young, former Senegalese president Abdoulaye Wade, John Lewis, Kitty J. Pope, Marcus Garvey, Mr. And Ms. Muhammad Ali, Ms. Coretta King, Ron Bobb- Semple, Tavis Smiley, United States

Marcus Garvey’s S.S. Shadyside Still in the Hudson River

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Harlem World Magazine | Leave a comment

The Black Star Line was the steamship company operated by Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (U.N.I.A.) in Harlem at 114 West 138th Street, from 1919 to 1922. Continue reading →

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Tagged 157th Street (IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line), Black Star Line, Kanawha, Marcus Garvey, S.S. Yarmouth, SS Shadyside

“The Black Star Steamship Line,” At The Harlem Pier In Harlem

Posted on November 12, 2011 by Harlem World Magazine | 2 Comments

The shining star of Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association UNIA movement offices (pictured below) were located at 54-56 West 135th Street Street was the Black Star Steamship Line, Inc., from 1919 to 1922 (pictured above at Harlem Pier). Continue reading →

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Tagged black Moses, Black Star Line, Harlem Pier, hudson river, Hugh Mulzac, Liberation Bookstore, Marcus Garvey, Niel Shoemaker, SS Shadyside, una mulzac, UNIA, Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League

Harlem History: “Speakers Corner” 135th Street And 8th Avenue

Posted on September 25, 2011 by Harlem World Magazine | 1 Comment

Soapbox or street corner speakers were a feature of everyday life in Harlem from World War One to the 1960s. Continue reading →

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Tagged Hubert Julian, Lafayette Theater, Lester Walton, Marcus Garvey, Philip Randolph, Sufi Abdul Hamid

HW Pick: Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr.

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Harlem World Magazine | 1 Comment

Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., National Hero of Jamaica (August 17, 1887 – June 10, 1940),

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Tagged Black Star Line, Dusé Mohamed Ali, Marcus Garvey, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League

HW Bio: Hubert Henry Harrison

Posted on December 25, 2010 by Harlem World Magazine | 4 Comments

Hubert Henry Harrison (April 27, 1883 – December 17, 1927) was a West Indian-American writer, orator, educator, critic, and radical political activist based in Harlem, New York. He was described by activist A. Philip Randolph as

…the father of Harlem radicalism…

and by the historian Joel Augustus Rogers as “the foremost Afro-American intellect of his time.”^{Continue reading →}

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Tagged Black organizer in the Socialist Party of America, D. Hamilton Jackson, Marcus Garvey, St. Croix

Marcus-Garvey In The 21st Century

Posted on December 12, 2008 by Harlem World Magazine | Leave a comment

As a walking tour guide I often lead tours through Harlem, telling the story of how this historic neighborhood rose to prominence in the 1920s to become the unofficial capital of black America. Among the stops along the tour route is a brown storefront building at 2305 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. (formerly Seventh Avenue). Now an unassuming beauty shop called Salon Ambiance, it was once an office of Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), and the organization’s newspaper the Negro World. On a recent tour with a group of young white British women, we stopped in front of Salon Ambiance and I launched into my standard abridged history of Garvey and his movement.

Marcus Garvey: A Liberating Legacy

Posted on July 8, 2008 by Harlem World Magazine | Leave a comment

Black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey inspired millions of black people to challenge racism. But his politics were contradictory, writes Ken Olende. Black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey inspired millions in the 1920s with slogans like, “Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will” and “Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.”

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Tagged Harlem, Ken Olende, Marcus Garvey

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