A plaque will likely be unveiled in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 25 to honour Jamaica’s first Nationwide Hero, the Rt. Excellency Marcus Mosiah Garvey.
The occasion will happen on the Large Bethel AME Church the place Garvey made his first look and delivered a public lecture on March 25, 1917, marking the 108th anniversary of the historic handle.
The disclosing ceremony will type a part of the second annual Atlanta Marcus Garvey Lecture, initiated by Garveyism professor and President of the Common Negro Enchancment Affiliation (UNIA), Steven Golding, in collaboration with the Atlanta Jamaica Affiliation.
Including to the importance of the occasion, March 25 can be commemorated by the United Nations because the Worldwide Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Slavery and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Commerce.
Mr. Golding defined that the plaque to be unveiled was designed by Nubian Jak, a British Jamaican who has produced greater than 100 black historical past heritage markers (blue plaques) in the UK (UK) because the starting of the twenty first century.
Mr. Jak will likely be available for the occasion.
He stated that friends will likely be handled to an unique screening of the 40-minute narrative movie ‘Mosiah’, the primary film to depict the lifetime of Garvey.
The film options Atlanta author and actor Samuel Lee-Fudge as Garvey.
Mr. Fudge will seem as a visitor on the plaque unveiling.
Because the founder and first President-Common of the UNIA and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL), Garvey constructed the most important mass motion of Black folks in historical past, establishing a strong framework for financial independence, cultural satisfaction, and political self-determination that reached from the streets of Harlem to the shores of Africa, the Caribbean, and past.
Amongst these anticipated to attend the plaque unveiling are Mayor of Atlanta, Hon. André Dickens; Jamaica’s Consul Common for the Southern United States, Oliver Mair; Jamaica’s Honorary Consul in Atlanta, Dr. Elaine Bryan; and President of the Atlanta Jamaica Affiliation, Evette Taylor-Reynolds.
