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Caribbean support for call on Obama to clean-up Garvey’s name before leaving White House

The head of the Caribbean’s top university is getting support from the region for his call on the departing black American president to clean-up Marcus Garvey’s name before leaving the White House.

Vice chancellor of the University of the West Indies Prof. Sir Hilary Beckles, over the weekend called on US President Barack Obama “to grant a posthumous pardon” to Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., for his 1923 mail fraud conviction in the United States.

Read more: http://www.caribbeannewsnow.com/topstory-Caribbean-support-for-call-on-Obama-to-clean-up-Garvey%27s-name-before-leaving-White-House-32519.html

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