Considered to be a civil rights activist during his stay in the USA, Garvey founded the Negro World newspaper, a shipping company called Black Star Line and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), a fraternal organization of black nationalists. (Read more...)
On July 15, 2013, Patrisse Cullors together with Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi co-founded the Black Lives Matter Movement in order to protect Blacks against racial discrimination, elevate Black lives and consciousness and prevent police brutality in the United States. (Read more...)