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Brian Meeks is chair of Africana studies at Brown University.
In 1978, Bob Marley fought a campaign for peace after years of political violence in his homeland. For the reggae icon, it wasn’t just about ending the killings – it was about building a better Jamaica.
On Jamaican Independence Day, we remember the country’s firebrand socialist leader Michael Manley – and his struggle in the 1970s to improve the lives of workers and the poor.