UNIA / ACL
The Official Website of The Universal Negro Improvement Association
& African Communities League
– Hon. Marcus Mosiah Garvey
Race First is Our Priority
In New York, the UNIA interest-owned BLACK FOOD MARKET – FACA ♦ROC – located at 132-05 Merrick Blvd (inside Belknap Street) is open 7 days per week providing all the dry goods, fish, meats, produce and vegetables. In Liberia, the UNIA owned LIBERTY FARM on 50 acres in Grand Bassa County produces cabbage, carrots, cucumbers, lettuce, melons, plantains, tomatoes, etc.. The Marcus Garvey Academy in Grand Bassa County registered its first 7 students. The UNIA operated Rosedale Soccer Club in Queens, NY is for youths aged 5 to 14.
For media and information, the UNIA conducts the COMMUNITY FOCUS SHOW. To view new and old shows CLICK HERE
Our History
Established 1914
Mr. Garvey built a mass organization that went beyond mere civil-rights agitation and protest and based itself upon a definitive, well thought out program that would lead to the total emancipation of the Black Race with foreign dominion.
Our Mission
The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA♦ACL) is a social, friendly humanitarian, charitable, educational, institutional, constructive, and expansive society founded by Marcus Garvey on Monday, July 20, 1914 in Kingston, Jamaica so as to work for the general uplift of Africans worldwide.
Our Constitution
Let justice be done to all mankind, realizing that if the strong oppresses the weak, confusion and discontent will ever amrk the path of man, but with love, faith and charity towards all, the reign of peace and plenty will be heralded into the world and the generations of men shall be call Blessed.
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The UNIA♦ACL is a social, friendly, humanitarian, charitable, educational, institutional, constructive and expansive society organized for the general uplift of Black people of the world
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Community Focus
Recent News
Ayiti Orientation
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Top 10 Things About Hon. Marcus Mosiah Garvey
ORGANIZER: Marcus Garvey was the World's Greatest Organizer as he was able to organize more than 12 million Africans worldwide.HISTORY: Mr. Garvey used history to inspire and educate, and not to dwell in it.A BETTER DAY: Mr. Garvey sold the Black Man to himself so...
Declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World
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From Our Members
What do our members have to say? We are a proud group who vow to uphold the mission and constitution of the U.N.I.A./A.C.L.
“I cannot thank the President General enough for allowing me to see the light at the end of the tunnel.”
“If it were not for the UNIA, I would be so frustrated and militant in responding to the white police brutality attacking our people. But because of the President General, I now know that the solutrion is a self reliant independent economics system based on Race First “
“When I need to food shop, I go to the ROC first and whatever I cannot find at the ROC, then I go to other super markets.”