Successive governments of Jamaica had called for Garvey to be pardoned for 40 years, making the first appeal to Ronald Reagan and the last to Biden. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Garvey’s ...
Joe Biden "accomplished something that President Obama didn't do," 91-year-old Julius Garvey told Newsweek about his father's ...
Marcus Garvey was granted a posthumous pardon by former President Joe Biden on his last full day in office, January 19. The ...
The widespread favorable media response to the pardon speaks to the enduring usefulness of Garvey’s brand of identity ...
As one of his last acts in office, President Joe Biden issued a posthumous pardon for Black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and generations of civil rights leaders.
It was the Great Depression and the family had been living in London after Marcus Garvey - the prominent 20th century Black ...
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 ...
“A pardon for Mr. Garvey would honor his contributions to ... NY), and Congresswoman Nikema Williams (D-GA), has called on President Biden to act. “This is about justice, not just for Marcus Garvey, ...
Black nationalist and activist Marcus Garvey, who was convicted of mail fraud in 1923, received a posthumous pardon from the ...
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 ...
In a final round of clemency, Biden approves the pardons of activists Marcus Garvey, Kemba Smith Pradia, and more before he leaves office.
President Joe Biden granted a posthumous pardon to civil rights leader Marcus Garvey and granted pardons or commuted the ...