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355 College Street has been home to Thymeless Bar, a reggae nightspot situated just steps from Kensington Market. What many people forget or don’t know is that for 57 years — from 1925 to 1982 — this building was home to the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) Hall.
Western governments – Canada, the U.S., and European metropolis' with colonies in Africa and the Americas – trembled, because Garvey’s program of black unity and self-determination would upend a racist and exploitative world order.
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n January, 1920, Jamaican Marcus Mosiah Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) – a Pan-African movement that advocated black pride, black unity, self-determination and “Africa for the Africans” – honeymooned and raised funds in Montreal and Toronto.
The City of Halifax demolished the once-prosperous seaside community in the 1960s in what many said was an act of racism. The mayor of the Halifax Regional Municipality apologized for the action in 2010.
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Africville was a small community of predominantly Black Canadians located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It developed on the southern shore of Bedford Basin and existed from the early 1800s to the 1960s.
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