America is a country,” Pres. Joe Biden said in a statement announcing the pardon alongside four others, “built on the promise of second chances.”

Marcus Mosiah Garvey was the most famous black man on the planet. The Jamaican-born black nationalist led the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), a mass movement of

Marcus Garvey is viewed by many as a civil rights icon who was ostracized by his own government. Advocates are again pressing Joe Biden to rewrite history.

Among those being pardoned was Marcus Mosiah Garvey, who was granted clemency ... and his sentence was commuted in 1927 by President Calvin Coolidge. Mr. Biden also pardoned Ravi Ragbir, an ...

President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned civil rights leader Marcus Garvey and four others in one of his last acts in office.

Civil rights advocates and lawmakers have long said that Mr. Garvey’s 1923 conviction for mail fraud was unjust, arguing that he was targeted for his work.

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.

In his final hours as president, Joe Biden pardoned Marcus Garvey and commuted Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier’s life sentence to house arrest. Black and Indigenous activists celebrate these wins,

Marcus Garvey, Jamaica’s first national hero, was pardoned by President Biden, rectifying a century-old injustice and honouring his legacy.

After President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned Marcus Garvey -- and despite assertions that the action represents an exoneration -- members of the government he founded continue their demands for justice.

Garvey, one of the earliest internationally-known Black civil rights leaders, was convicted of mail fraud in 1923.