No One Saw It Coming
No One Saw It Coming
ABC Australia
Titanic mistakes sunk a black empire
25 minutes Posted Aug 16, 2026 at 8:00 pm.
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Marcus Garvey is known as a civil rights activist and leader of the Pan-Africanism movement. But there’s a part of his story you may not know about. 
Social historian Darrel Blake tells Marc Fennell (Stuff The British Stole) the lesser known chapter in Marcus Garvey’s life - about how he established a shipping company but ended up creating a symbol of black liberation and empowerment, but not before condemning his reputation, being called a fraud and sabotaging a black empire. 
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