Event:
19th Annual Marcus Garvey Day Celebration Caribbean Gospel Explosion
2009!
Date:
To Be Determined
Time: 1 to
6 p.m.
Price:
FREE!
Location:
WorldBeat Cultural Center, 2100 Park Blvd. San Diego, CA.
Call:
(619) 230-1190
WorldBeatcenter.org
WorldBeat Cultural
Center Presents 18th Annual Marcus Garvey Day Celebration Caribbean
Gospel Explosion 2008! with Lynette White, Monty G & Lion of Judah,
KristineAlicia, Wayne Stoddart, Reubin Heights, Najie Dunn, Joan
Meyers, Jozanne Marie…and more!!!
Caribbean Gospel is established and is experiencing tremendous
growth worldwide. Caribbean Gospel music in Southern California
stems from an interest in embracing cultures that comprise
California's diverse population. And celebrating the Caribbean
gospel roots, concert goers can look to Marcus Mosiah Garvey, one of
the greatest leaders African people. Born August 17, 1887 in St.
Ann's Bay, Jamaica, he spent his life in the service of his African
family of people. He was bold, uncompromising and a powerful orator.
He could bring audiences to a heightened state of excitement. Garvey
emphasized racial pride with the goal of obtaining redemption and
liberation of African people around the planet.
Garvey left school at the age of 14, working as a printer's
apprentice. He participated in Jamaica's earliest nationalist
organizations, traveled throughout Central America, and spent time
in London, England, where he worked with the Sudanese-Egyptian
nationalist Duse Mohamed Ali. In 1916 Garvey was invited by Booker
T. Washington to come to the United States in the hopes of
establishing an industrial training school, but arrived just after
Washington died. In March 1916, shortly after landing in America,
Garvey embarked upon an extended period of travel. When he finally
settled down, he organized a chapter of the Universal Negro
Improvement Association and African Communities League. The UNIA &
ACL had been formed in Jamaica in 1914. Its motto was "One God, One
Aim, One Destiny," and pledged itself to the redemption of Africa
and the uplift of Black people everywhere. It aimed at race pride,
self-reliance and economic independence.
Within a few years Garvey had become the best-known and most dynamic
African leader in the Western Hemisphere and perhaps the entire
world. In 1919 Mr. Garvey created an international shipping company
called the Black Star Line. By 1920 the UNIA had hundreds of
divisions. It hosted elaborate international conventions and
published a weekly newspaper entitled the Negro World.
No other organization in modern times has had the prestige and the
impact as the UNIA & ACL. During the 1920s UNIA divisions existed
throughout North, South and Central America, the Caribbean, Africa,
Europe and Australia. |
