President Joe Biden has posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other Black civil rights leaders and was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s.

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 ...

Marcus Garvey ignited one of the most phenomenal social movements in modern history and was admired around the world. Yet few today understand his quest to promote the economic and cultural ...

Dr. Julius Garvey, son of Marcus Garvey, poses in the eponymous Marcus Garvey Park in New York City in October 2016. Photo: Yana Paskova/For The Washington Post via Getty Images What they're ...

President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned civil rights leader and Pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey, along with four others, and commuted two sentences.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." 1887–1940 Marcus Garvey was granted a posthumous pardon by former President Joe Biden on his last full ...

Congressional leaders had pushed for Biden to pardon Garvey, with supporters arguing that Garvey’s conviction was politically motivated and an effort to silence the increasingly popular leader who ...