Ralph Casimir News Today

Quite often when the issue of emancipation is being discussed we hear the words “emancipate yourself from mental slavery”. Most people associate them with Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” where we find “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds.” It is really an adoption of a speech delivered by Marcus Garvey in Nova Scotia, Canada on October 1, 1937. Garvey said then, “We’re going to emancipate …

Wednesday, 17th August was the anniversary of the birth of one of Jamaica’s national heroes, Marcus Mosiah Garvey who was born at St. John’s Bay on the north coast of Jamaica in 1887. His Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) as it was called was launched in Jamaica in 1914, with its headquarters later located at Harlem in New York. The organisation spanned many countries and impacted on Blacks everywhere. In …