Dr. Julius Garvey, Son of Marcus Garvey to Keynote PuLSE Forum

Dr. Julius Garvey will deliver a keynote address on the legacy of his father Marcus Mosiah Garvey and the need to exonerate him.

Dr. Julius Garvey, an accomplished surgeon and the youngest son of Marcus Mosiah Garvey, the father of the 20th century Black freedom struggle will deliver a keynote address at The PuLSE Institute on the legacy of his father, his philosophical impact on the modern day Black Lives Matter movement, and the importance of the Justice4Garvey initiative, which is asking for a full posthumous exoneration of Garvey by President Joe Biden.

Dr. Garvey will speak at The PuLSE Institute’s virtual forum on Thursday, September 16, 4-6pm EST. The forum is free and open to the public.

Marcus Garvey’s indelible work on the need for Blacks all over the world to develop a new level of consciousness about their worth and dignity laid the foundation for the Civil Rights Movement.

Marcus Garvey, one of the most charismatic Black leaders in the world, who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in 1914 with a membership that reached 5 million members in 40 nations by 1921, as well as the Black Star Line Steamship Corp, a shipping company, was convicted of mail fraud in 1923 and sent back to his native Jamaica and never allowed to return to the United States.

Since then, many including historians have contended that the case against Garvey were trumped up charges made during a time when Black leaders, such as the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., were under constant surveillance by authorities and criminal justice system used to target them and their allies who were calling for the dismantling of Jim Crow.

At The PuLSE Institute, Dr. Garvey will discuss how his father’s monumental legacy inspired the movement for self-determination in the Black community as well as the Harlem Renaissance and the need for President Biden to grant pardon to a historical figure like Garvey, who had influence on some of the greatest African American leaders who shaped the Civil Rights Movement.

For example, Dr. King visited Garvey’s grave in Jamaica in 1965 and laid a wreath to honor his tremendous legacy of birthing ideas of empowerment that would serve as an impetus to the Civil Rights Movement. Civil rights lawyer Charles Hamilton Houston, the man who is credited for creating the legal strategies to defeat Jim Crow, also invited Garvey to speak to him and fellow Black law students at Harvard University Law School during a luncheon organized to welcome the architect of the Black freedom struggle.

A national independent anti-poverty think tank headquartered in Detroit, and commonly referred to as Detroit’s anti-poverty think tank, The PuLSE Institute, has a National Advisory Panel made up of leaders and thinkers who are invested in the fight against global poverty, inequality and racial injustice. They include Dr. Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. Bernard Lafayette, National Coordinator of the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign under civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Bishop Charles E. Blake, presiding Bishop Emeritus of the Church of God in Christ Inc., the largest Black Christian denomination in the country with a membership of 6.5 million, Robert Weiner, former White House spokesman, former presidential diarist Janis F. Kearney, Sister Simone Campbell, a leading anti-poverty crusader in the American Catholic community etc.

Attorney Tina M. Patterson, the president and director of research of The PuLSE Institute will give the welcome remarks at the forum, which will be moderated by nationally renowned journalist Bankole Thompson, the editor-in-chief and dean of the Institute. Thompson is a twice-a-week opinion columnist at The Detroit News and the host of a two-hour public affairs and commentary show REDLINE on 910AM Super Station, weekdays from 11am-1pm.

Reverend Solomon W. Kinloch Jr., the senior pastor of Detroit’s Triumph Church, one of the largest and fastest growing Black churches in the nation, will deliver the opening remarks at the event and underscore the significance of Detroit as place that inspired Black political thought and activism.

The PuLSE Institute’s online speaker program featuring Dr. Garvey deals with issues of inequality, economic and racial justice issues and features an array of speakers including activists, thought leaders, policy makers and public officials whose work reflect the push for anti-poverty policies and reforming the justice system.

Most recently, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, who presided over the George Floyd murder trial delivered a major keynote address followed by a Q&A session at the Institute about criminal justice reform and the need to fulfill the dream of Dr. King.

Other notable speakers who appeared at the Institute include Federal Bankruptcy Judge Mark Randon of the Eastern District of Michigan, who spoke about poverty and the U.S. bankruptcy court system as well as Dr. Natalia Kanem, the United Nations Under-Secretary General and Executive Director of UNFPA, the UN Reproductive Agency, who delivered a keynote address on women, poverty and the coronavirus pandemic.

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