Marcus Garvey was a Jamaican civil rights activist, the founding father of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), and an owner of the Black Star Line shipping company.

Julius Garvey receives long-awaited pardon for his father Marcus Garvey, a Black nationalist and activist. President Biden's last-minute action clears his name.

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

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 posthumously pardoned Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr., a civil rights leader, as part of his commitment to building a more inclusive America and correcting historical injustices.

On his last day in office, President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s.

President Joe Biden issued another round of pardons on Sunday, including a posthumous one for Black nationalist Marcus Garvey.

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,

It's not clear whether Biden, who leaves office Monday, will pardon people who have been criticized or threatened by President-elect Donald Trump.

As his presidency winds to a close, President Biden issued a posthumous pardon for Marcus Garvey, a notable Black nationalist who inspired figures like Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela, and later generations of Black Panther Party activists.