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. Congressional leaders had pushed for Biden to pardon Garvey (1887-1940),

In a notable gesture on Sunday, January 19, the eve of Trump’s inauguration, outgoing President Joe Biden granted a posthumous pardon to Marcus Garvey. Garvey was the influential Black nationalist leader whose advocacy for racial pride and empowerment shaped

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,