President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other civil rights leaders and was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s. Also receiving pardons were a top Virginia lawmaker and advocates for immigrant rights,

U.S. President Joe Biden pardoned five people on Sunday, including the late civil rights leader Marcus Garvey, and commuted the sentences of two, the White House said in a statement.

President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned civil rights leader and Pan-African activist Marcus Garvey, who was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s. Garvey served four years in prison until President Calvin Coolidge commuted his sentence in 1927,

President Joe Biden announced a series of last-minute pardons on Sunday, granting clemency to five individuals, including a posthumous pardon for Marcus Garvey, the late civil rights leader and founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association.

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson has congratulated outgoing United States President Joe Biden for his decision to grant a posthumous pardon to Jamaica's National Hero and Pan-African visionary Marcus Mosiah Garvey.

This historic pardon culminates a decades-long fight by Marcus Garvey’s descendants and supporters to right the wrongs of a what many regarded as a politically motivated conviction.

On his last full day as President, Biden issued pardons for 5 people including Don Scott, Marcus Garvey, and Kemba Pradia, a Richmond-born prison reform activist.

Robert Montague says the decision of U.S. President Joe Biden to issue a posthumous pardon to Jamaica’s first National Hero, Marcus Mosiah Garvey is a “step in the right direction”. The pardon was announced on Sunday,

The president’s pardon of Garvey, a seminal figure of the civil rights movement, is another reflection of his presidency’s ties to the Black community.