Emancipation Day Celebrations 1900. Juneteenth, also known as Juneteenth Independence Day or Freedom Day, is an American holiday that commemorates the June 19, 1865, announcement of the abolition of slavery in the US state of Texas, and … [Read more...] about JUNETEENTH INDEPENDENCE DAY
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100-YEAR ANNIVERSARY: THE 1921 TULSA RACE MASSACRE
May 31-June 01 is the 100-year anniversary of the "Tulsa Race Massacre", also called the "Tulsa Race Riot", the "Greenwood Massacre", or the "Black Wall Street Massacre", when mobs of white residents attacked black residents and businesses … [Read more...] about 100-YEAR ANNIVERSARY: THE 1921 TULSA RACE MASSACRE
APRIL 04, 1968 – DEATH OF A DREAMER
Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his assassination in 1968. He is best known for advancing … [Read more...] about APRIL 04, 1968 – DEATH OF A DREAMER
BLESSED EARTH STRONG TO CLINTON FEARON
Clinton Fearon was born on 13 January 1951 in St. Andrew and like many reggae musicians who came of age in the late 1960s and early '70s, Clinton Fearon was a country boy who migrated to Kingston as a teenager in order to seek his musical … [Read more...] about BLESSED EARTH STRONG TO CLINTON FEARON
MARCUS GARVEY JR PASSES AWAY
Marcus Garvey Jr. Marcus Garvey Jr., the firstborn son of Jamaica’s first national hero, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, passed away to Alzheimer’s disease in Wellington, Florida, on 08 December, 2020 at the age of 90. He was born in St Andrew, … [Read more...] about MARCUS GARVEY JR PASSES AWAY