African Voices Forum
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African Voices Forum (AVF) is a Bristol-based network of African and African-Caribbean community associations/organisations.
Bristol, UK
Joined August 2012
Let's surge forward as one people with one focus. We are bigger than pandemics. Make a date this Saturday lets learn and grow together. #BristolCity
#movingforward
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‘Wah Gwaan’, How ready are you for another memorable experience of celebrating love as one big family. It's EVERYTHING JAMAICA here again come 5th August 2023 @ ST. AGNES PARK... Come around lets have fun.See Yah!😜 #everythingjamaica
#BristolCity
#Jamaica
#jamaicaindependence
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What a brilliant Membership Engagement Meeting that was! Thanks to everyone who came, enjoy the photos on our new website! https://t.co/8Yt6SDTVX4
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Special Elders Food Club this Friday @ Docklands! Starts at 12:30 this week #Bristol #Elders #community
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Slowly starting to get warmer.. in the double digits C° 👀🙄
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a testament to how powerful and relevant his core message remains around the world today. #MarcusGarvey #BlackHistoryMonth #AVF #YoungLegacies #Garveyism #BlackPower
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the Rastafari religion, the Nation of Islam & Malcolm X, and the Black Power Movement to name a few. In fact, the vision and mission statements of African Voices Forum are aligned with the ideals of Garveyism
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(in today's money) to the engines of the ship. In 1923 Garvey was convicted for mail fraud, and BSL operations were halted. Marcus Garvey's powerful influence on Black thought and freedom movements throughout the 20th and 21st century may be unparalleled, having a huge impact on
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to infiltrate the UNIA in 1919. His job was to sabotage the BSL's ambitions, and attempt to indict Garvey for fraud. Jones was successful in his mission, he gained Garvey's trust and throwing foreign matter into the fuel, causing over $2,000,000 worth of damages
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through crowdsourcing. The Black Star Line was ultimately unsuccessful, due in large part to the infiltration of J. Edgar Hoover's BOI (the FBI's predecessor) agents. Hoover sent the FBI's first full time Black agent, "James Wormley Jones"
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relying on the 20th century racist American government for help. He was dedicated to the Back-to-Africa movement, and through his organisation the 'Universal Negro Improvement Association' (UNIA), set up the Black Star Line (BSL), a shipping company that purchased four ships
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Garvey was famous for his vision of Black unification across the USA, Caribbean and Africa under a shared Pan-African identity. His Black nationalist ideologies encouraged Black Americans to proactively establish infrastructure, institutions and local economies rather than
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We are posting about important people and events in recognition of US Black History Month. Our third historical figure is the right excellent Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr., a political activist, journalist and highly influential Pan-African Black nationalist born in Jamaica 1887.
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He held the belief that the entire African diaspora needed permanent mass organisation. This was a concept expanded from his mentor Kwame Nkrumah's ideas around unifying Africa, as expressed in his book Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare. #BlackHistoryMonth
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In 1978 he changed his name to Kwame Ture, in honour of his patrons Kwame Nkrumah and Ahmed Sekou Toure. For the final 30 years of his life, he was dedicated to the All-African People's Revolutionary Party (A-APRP).
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His efforts were largely successful; in 1967-68 Carmichael was expelled from the SNCC, denounced by the Black Panthers, and banned from the UK, eventually having his passport withdrawn by the US Govt. Carmichael left the US in 1969 and arrived in Guinea.
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Declassified documents show that Hoover's fear of Carmichael led him to launch a plan to undermine the SNCC-Panther merger, and "bad jacket" (a term for planting doubt on someone's integrity) Carmichael as a CIA agent.
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It was around this time that Carmichael was targeted by J. Edgar Hoover's COINTELPRO (counter-intelligence program) focussed on Black activists. Hoover saw Carmichael as the only man who had the "necessary charisma" to succeed Malcolm X as America's "Black messiah".
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believed NAACP and other organisations were accepting symbols instead of change. After accepting the position of Honorary Prime Minister in the Black Panther Party (BPP) in 1967, Carmichael aimed to form a merger the SNCC and the BPP.
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