marcus garvey said, red, black and green. you going to thank me for making me say that because now you're going to remember. brother malik, we did it. you can get liz jackson simpson back up here. [applause] >> all right, thank you so much, can everybody give brother malik and brother clint a big round of applause. [applause] we're not going to forget what mark cuss garvey said, that's right. at this time i would like to bkt village project baby to the stage with ms. adrienne williams. they're going to lead us in the singing of the negro national anthem, lift every voice. everybody give these babies a big round of applause. [singing lift every voice "lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring. ring with the harmonies of liberty. let our revoicing rise. [applause] thank you, village project children. yes, in deed. now we have another performance from ms. teah carol. [applause] we have another performance from ms. teah cara, everybody give her a big round of applause. thank you, welcome to the kwanzaa celebration toda

marcus garvey was a later champion of that. he it he thought that it discounted the value of reclaiming their heritage as americans. and so he said all this late native land talk is nonsense. the native land of the american --, according to frederick douglass, is america. this argument against the mass emigration of blacks away from america can be applied to african heritage arguments that douglass believed, quote, weaken the --'s whole need on one country and quote, i think this is an important observation of douglass's for much of white american practice, legal and social gave black americans plenty of reasons not to love the land of their birth. douglass, however, placed great stock in how much blacks had contributed to the growth of america, despite the inhospitable and ungrateful country. and so, given that all that douglass did to promote the uplift of blacks in america, he was not a fan of what was known at the time as race pride. he called it a false founded ocean and a positive of evil. he proclaimed that this is the v

marcus garvey like i, the voice of pan-africanism, the voice leaves, right? he's he goes and he moves to ghana. ghana invited him, thinking about the reaction to because there's in movement, there's power creating a safe space. so african american soldiers founded a whole town black. the new mexico. former black chaplain allen's allensworth founds allensworth california california as a place to escape that. so looking at know say black geographies ecologies these important in thinking about well what are some of the different ways that blacks not only empower themselves but fight against the oppression without having to pick up a gun or something so moving getting and leaving like the great migration you know with theory is it literally changed the entire political landscape of this country, right. because the white south was like, wait, why are you leaving? well really. how are you leaving? woodrow wilson even wrote to the governor of mississippi because he was like, stop cutting stop the trains leaving. and they're like, well, we got to keep them. you're li

marcus garvey like i, the voice of pan-africanism, the voice leaves, right? he's he goes and he moves to ghana. ghana invited him, thinking about the reaction to because there's in movement, there's power creating a safe space. so african american soldiers founded a whole town black. the new mexico. former black chaplain allen's allensworth founds allensworth california california as a place to escape that. so looking at know say black geographies ecologies these important in thinking about well what are some of the different ways that blacks not only empower themselves but fight against the oppression without having to pick up a gun or something so moving getting and leaving like the great migration you know with theory is it literally changed the entire political landscape of this country, right. because the white south was like, wait, why are you leaving? well really. how are you leaving? woodrow wilson even wrote to the governor of mississippi because he was like, stop cutting stop the trains leaving. and they're like, well, we got to keep them. you're li

she read novels, but she also read books about marcus garvey, other informative things.he graduated time and she to go to morgan state university. she only stayed two semesters and she found out she was going to have cody. so i started looking at different colleges that would allow young mothers to have their children because wanted her to stay in school. but then she was like, well, you know, that's going to be too much. so she directed her attention to her other passion. she got a cosmetology license and started doing hair and makeup. oh, she enjoyed it. she bought two homes as rental properties that she used for income. she bought her own vehicle, so she was independent. after michael brown, there was a whole snowball effect of police murders. freddie gray was a neighbor of. i didn't personally know him, but i knew him from the neighborhood and it was literally a few blocks. everything that unfolded was literally around the corner where she grew up. that was our community. and our community had been robbed. she was an activist role. she wanted teach because she was se