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...about “Back to Africa.” Arguably the 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...
...members of the Pan-African Liberation Movement stage a takeover of Mass. Hall in protest of Harvard’s holdings in Gulf Oil, which supports the military regime in Angola. The takeover galvanizes the South African divestment campaign. In 1977, 2000 students block the entrance to University Hall in protest; in 1986, 200 divestment activists erect a shanty town and a symbolic ivory tower in the yard. The ACSR petitions for divestment from South Africa regularly between...
...racial domain” and see how structural racism, mass unemployment and incarceration, disease and disenfranchisement lower the life chances of blacks globally. Instead of disregarding the political thought of Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X as anachronistic or misguided, it might be time to resurrect the Pan-African focus in order to combat the most severe crisis in the African Diaspora since colonialism. We live in a world where those with power and resources are either flagrantly inattentive or maliciously disengaged from this plight because there is no joint intellectual and grassroots pressure. For example, we praise President Bush?...
Chissano also touted the value of Pan-African organizations in resolving and preventing conflicts. “Africans share the same destiny, and as such they need to unite and act collectively,” he said. “It is [the] right of the African Union (AU) to intervene when there are massacres, genocides and crimes against humanity. No African country can hide behind sovereignty to oppress...
Specifically, black politics must be concerned with restructuring affirmative action with regards to black people; pushing a pan-African agenda that works to prevent the spread of AIDS and avert the destabilization of the African continent; and creating independent financial institutions that reinvest and redistribute wealth throughout the Diaspora. Moreover, black elites must devote themselves to the education of black youth in order to provide an alternative voice to the onslaught of negativity unleashed by a profit-driven media...