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Roots & Branches is a subsidiary of Lindsay Entertainment Network, producing such events as the Black History Month lecture series held at the Scibelli Hall Theater on the campus of Springfield Technical Community College,
Among the programs presented has been Marcus Garvey’s Historical Legacy by his son, Dr. Julius Garvey. Dr. Julius Garvey, an accomplished vascular surgeon, was one of the featured speakers at the 4th annual Black History Month Lecture Presentation Series. Dr. Garvey offered insight into the continued struggles African Americans face in the 21st century, for what he called mental and economic empowerment. He spoke richly on the history of his father, who in 1914 established the Universal Negro Improvement Association and its coordinating body, the African Communities League, in New York City.
In 1920, the organization held its first convention with a parade down Harlem’s Lenox Avenue, advocating that “Africans and all African Descendants (Black Americans) should regain control of self and of the wealth of our homeland Africa.” In New York City, Garvey’s ideas attracted popular support, and thousands enrolled in the UNIA. He began publishing the newspaper The Negro World and toured the United States preaching self-empowerment and social reform to popular audiences.
This Black History Month 2022, we are supporting Justice 4 Garvey in their gathering of 100,000 signatures to request an official response from the White House and President Biden for a posthumous exoneration of the Rt. Honorable Marcus Garvey for his unjust persecution and imprisonment by the U.S. government in 1923.
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