UWI Principal to deliver Marcus Garvey Lecture

Principal of the University of the West Indies, Mona, Professor Densil Williams, will deliver the 13th annual Marcus Garvey Lecture, set for June 7 at the St Ann Parish Library in St Ann's Bay.

Presented by the St Ann Homecoming and Heritage Foundation in association with the St Ann Parish Library Network, the lecture is endorsed by Discovery Bauxite and begins at 11 a.m. Admission is free.

The lecture is held annually to celebrate the life of Jamaica's first national hero, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, who was born in St Ann's Bay on August 18, 1887.

Garvey was leader of the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), which he founded in 1914, and was celebrated as a proponent of Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, which inspired the Nation of Islam, a black nationalist organisation, and Rastafarianism.

- Carl Gilchrist

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