{"id":6903,"date":"2013-01-17T22:30:23","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T02:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=6903"},"modified":"2013-01-29T13:14:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T17:14:50","slug":"professor-tony-martin-dies-at-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=6903","title":{"rendered":"Professor Tony Martin Dies at 70"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UPDATE \u2013 JANUARY 28, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.triniview.com\/gallery\/main.php?g2_itemId=701954\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Prof Tony Martin's Send-Off\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triniview.com\/gallery\/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&#038;g2_itemId=702083&#038;g2_serialNumber=1\" border=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><br \/>Prof Tony Martin&#8217;s Send-Off &#8212; January 25, 2013<\/a><br \/>\nA Celebration and Thanksgiving Service for the life of Professor Anthony Martin<br \/>\n21st February, 1942 \u2013 17th January, 2013.<br \/>\nService on Friday 25th January, 2013 at 9.00 a.m.<br \/>\nSt. Theresa\u2019s R.C. Church, Woodbrook thence to the St. James Crematorium for 11.00 a.m.<br \/>\n<i><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.triniview.com\/gallery\/main.php?g2_itemId=701954\">More photos here<\/a><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE &#8211; JANUARY 23, 2013<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The funeral of Professor Tony Martin will be held on Friday 25th January, 2013, at 9:00am at St. Theresa&#8217;s R.C. Church, 50 De Verteuil Street, Woodbrook.<\/p>\n<p><em>Trinicenter.com Reporters<br \/>\nJanuary 17, 2013 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinicenter.com\/tnt\/2013\/1701.html\">www.trinicenter.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonymartin.net.tt\/\"><img src='http:\/\/www.rastafarispeaks.com\/bp\/dr-anthony-martin.png' width='163' height='173' border='0' class='alignleft' alt='Professor Tony Martin' \/><\/a>Dr. Tony Martin, former Professor Emeritus at Wellesley College, has passed over tonight, January 17th 2013 in Trinidad &#038; Tobago at West Shore Medical Hospital. Trinidadian-born Dr. Martin taught at the University of Michigan-Flint, the Cipriani Labour College (Trinidad), and St. Mary&#8217;s College (Trinidad). He has been a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota, Brandeis University, Brown University, and The Colorado College and also spent a year as an honorary research fellow at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nProfessor Martin has written, compiled or edited 14 books including Caribbean History: From Pre-Colonial Origins to the Present (2012) published by Pearson Education; Amy Ashwood Garvey: Pan-Africanist, Feminist and Mrs. Marcus Garvey No. 1, Or, A Tale of Two Amies (2007), Literary Garveyism: Garvey, Black Arts and the Harlem Renaissance (1983), and the classic study of the Garvey Movement, Race First: the Ideological and Organizational Struggles of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (1976).<\/p>\n<p>His work on Marcus Garvey was featured on the curricula of many African studies programmes around the world and he was a well-known lecturer in many countries. <\/p>\n<p><i>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinicenter.com\/tnt\/2013\/1701.html\">www.trinicenter.com\/tnt\/2013\/1701.html<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonymartin.net.tt\/\">Dr. Tony Martin Books &amp; Biography<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p><b>Tony Martin Speaks on Marcus Garvey pt.1<\/b><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nJh5JMaT2Lo\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>Professor Tony Martin The Slave Trade<\/b><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E0eLkMAFIvc\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE \u2013 JANUARY 28, 2013 Prof Tony Martin&#8217;s Send-Off &#8212; January 25, 2013 A Celebration and Thanksgiving Service for the life of Professor Anthony Martin 21st February, 1942 \u2013 17th January, 2013. Service on Friday 25th January, 2013 at 9.00 a.m. St. Theresa\u2019s R.C. Church, Woodbrook thence to the St. James Crematorium for 11.00 a.m. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=6903\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Professor Tony Martin Dies at 70<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,38,33,320],"tags":[1032,104,831],"class_list":["post-6903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-books","category-health","category-passed-on","tag-africa","tag-african","tag-professor-tony-martin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6903"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6946,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6903\/revisions\/6946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}