Remembering Marcus Garvey
August 17th, 2011 marked the 124th anniversary of the birth of one of Jamaica’s most influential sons, Marcus Mosiah Garvey. The earliest family portrait in which I am included, shows the Kambons five, arranged around a large drawing of Garvey, set in a handmade frame, intricately carved and painted in the colours of the UNIA flag. Gallery-hopping on the Upper East Side one day, I encountered a real, silver gelatin print, of a UNIA procession. I could barely believe my […]
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