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,
On his last full day in office on Sunday, President Biden issued five pardons, including one for political activist and black nationalist Marcus Garvey.
President Joe Biden has posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey ... since become a prison reform activist. President Bill Clinton commuted her sentence in 2000.
Dr. Julius Garvey pushes for his father Marcus Garvey, who died in 1940, to receive a posthumous presidential pardon.
President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey ... was sentenced to 24 years behind bars. President Bill Clinton commuted her sentence in 2000.
It's not clear whether Biden, who leaves office Monday, will pardon people who have been criticized or threatened by President-elect Donald Trump.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey ... President Bill Clinton commuted her sentence in 2000. —Darryl Chambers of Wilmington ...
AFTER appeals to several leaders of the United States, including the man dubbed America’s first black president, Bill Clinton, and the official first black president, Barack Obama, it took an 82-year-old white man from Delaware, the 46th president of the US, to finally act on calls to pardon Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jamaica’s first national hero.
President Biden pardoned political activist and Black nationalist Marcus Garvey and four others on Sunday on his last day in office.
Michelle West waited 32 years. Convicted in 1994 of nonviolent drug offenses, she was ordered to federal prison for two life sentences, plus an additional 50 years. On Sunday, former President Joe Biden commuted her sentence,
President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other civil rights leaders.