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...most overlooked and misunderstood black leader of the past century, Garvey led the second-largest organized mass movement of people of African ancestry—exceeded only by the slave trade. He was the father of the Pan-African movement and the grandfather of the civil rights and African nationalist movements of the 1950s and 1960s and the black self-determination efforts of the 1970s. Without Garvey, there would be no Black Panther Party, Kwame Nkrumah, Malcolm X or even Bob Marley. Just as the leaders and activists of the past were able to draw from Garvey?...
...people; his message was one of unity and love amongst black people. In order to achieve any sort of progress, black people need to free themselves from the colonial mentality which asks: “What can black people do for me?” and adopt a nationalist mentality which asks: “What can I do for black people...
...links to March 11. - By Leo Cendrowicz and James Graff Breakaway Bid SPAIN Basque President Juan José Ibarretxe ordered regional elections moved up by a month after the Spanish national parliament overwhelmingly rejected his proposal for greater Basque autonomy. An increase in support for Ibarretxe's moderate Basque Nationalist Party in the April 17 poll would boost his plans to put the autonomy proposal to a referendum in the region. Campaign Blues ZIMBABWE The main opposition party, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), announced it had decided "with a heavy heart" to participate in March 31 parliamentary elections, although...
...local newspaper called Wong "the female traitor to China," and a journal in Tianjin carried the headline: "Paramount Uses Anna May Wong to Embarrass China Again." Apparently not realizing that the villain Chang was a Communist, and Wong's Hui Fei, though a prostitute, was a brave Nationalist who kills Chang to save China, Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government banned the film. Said Wong: "It's a pretty sad situation to be rejected by the Chinese because I am too American...
...Allawi's best bet would be to draw the Kurds into his own bloc. But the Kurds, secular and seperatist, they are hardly natural allies for the moderate Islamist-nationalist UIA list assembled under the auspices of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani. Still, they may see the Sistani list as a more viable government, if they can strike a deal that gives the Shiites the power they seek in Baghdad in exchange for de facto Kurdish independence in the northern provinces - largely at the expense of Sunni Arabs and ethnic Turkmen in Kirkuk and other contested areas. Ultimately, however, the Kurds...