Violet Jessop settled into her bunk on the Titanic, where she worked as a stewardess. She flipped through some magazines, read a prayer, and was starting to drift off to sleep when an ominous crash ...
a British merchant navy officer who captained numerous White Star Line vessels. Smith was the captain of the RMS Titanic and perished when the ship sank on its maiden voyage. In the movie Titanic ...
The RMS Olympic, launched on 20 October 1910, was the first of the White Star Line's Olympic-class liners, preceding sister ships the Titanic (heard of it?) and the Britannic. Nicknamed 'Old Reliable' ...
Such was the case with Garvey’s ill-fated idea to start a shipping company, the Black Star Steamship Line, in a highly competitive industry. Established in 1922, it was meant to carry goods to ...
In 1922, Garvey was arrested and convicted of mail fraud associated with Black Star Line's advertising of a stock sale for a ship not yet owned. After his 1923 conviction his sentence was commuted ...
including Garvey’s Back-to-Africa political movement (the aforementioned sci-fi ships are descendants of the Black Star Line ocean liners), as well as contemporary efforts to liberate African ...
“It was the audacity of founding the Black Star Line that drew the attention of federal investigators,” Anthony T. Pierce, a partner at the law firm Akin Gump, told The Washington Post in 2021.
This year it features Mark Williams, Stan Walker, Che Fu & The Kratez, Ladi 6, Black Slate ... The event will have a musical line-up, headlined by Dam Native, MAJIC, Jordyn with a Why, MOHI ...
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