by Derrick Scott
ATLANTA – Later this month, a commemorative plaque will probably be revealed in Atlanta, Georgia, to pay tribute to Jamaica’s inaugural nationwide hero, Rt. Excellency Marcus Mosiah Garvey.
Jamaica’s Ambassador to the USA is Her Excellency Audrey P. Marks, OJ. will unveil a plaque on March 25, 2025. This occasion will happen on the Large Bethel AME Church in downtown Atlanta. Large Bethel AME is the place Marcus Garvey first spoke in Atlanta on March 25, 1917. This occasion marks the 108th anniversary of that essential lecture.
Unveiling Ceremony
The disclosing ceremony is a part of the second annual Atlanta Marcus Garvey Lecture. This occasion was began by Steven Golding who began the symposium. Golding is a professor of Garveyism. As well as, he’s the President of the Common Negro Enchancment Affiliation. The occasion is in collaboration with the Atlanta Jamaica Affiliation.
Including to the importance of the occasion, 25 March 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 will probably be unveiled by him and Ambassador Marks. It was designed by Nubian Jak, a British Jamaican. He has created over 100 black historical past markers within the UK since 2000. Nubian Jak will attend the ceremony in Atlanta for his first unveiling within the USA.
Movie Screening
Professor Golding additional famous that company will probably be handled to an unique screening of the 40-minute narrative movie “Mosiah” – the primary film to depict the lifetime of the Proper Excellency Marcus Mosiah Garvey. The film options Atlanta author and actor Samuel Lee-Fudge as Garvey. Fudge will seem as a visitor on the lecture.
In commending the occasion organizers, Ambassador Marks expressed that Marcus Mosiah Garvey “emerged as one of the crucial influential Pan-African leaders of the 20th century, wielding his visionary management and magnetism as an orator to awaken a world consciousness amongst Black individuals.”
Because the founder and first President-Normal of the Common Negro Enchancment Affiliation and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL), Garvey constructed the biggest mass motion of Black individuals 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.
Particular Company
Among the many invited company, for the March twenty fifth occasion, are the Honourable Andre Dickens, Mayor of Atlanta, Mr. Oliver Mair, Jamaica’s Consul Normal for the Southern United States, Dr. Elaine Bryan, Jamaica’s Honorary Consul in Atlanta and Ms. Evette Taylor-Reynolds. President of the Atlanta Jamaica Affiliation.