An interesting holiday jumps out in July: Emperor Haile Selassie was born on July 23, 1892. His backstory: In the 1930s, Marcus Garvey led the Universal Negro Improvement Association. One day, he told ...
In 1924 when the writer was a student in Geneva he attended a theatre in which one of the skits made fun of Ras Tafari Makonnen, Prince Regent of Abyssinia (now Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia).