On his last full day as President, Biden issued pardons for 5 people including Don Scott, Marcus Garvey, and Kemba Pradia, a Richmond-born prison reform activist.
On his last full day as President, Biden issued pardons for 5 people including Don Scott, Marcus Garvey, and Kemba Pradia, a Richmond-born prison reform activist.
Mr. Biden's pardons in recent days come after the president made the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history in December by commuting the sentences of around 1,500 people and pardoning nearly 40 Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes. Earlier that month, he also issued a pardon for his son, Hunter Biden.
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. Also receiving pardons were a top Virginia lawmaker and advocates for immigrant rights,
President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned civil rights leader and Pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey, along with four others, and commuted two sentences.
President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned civil rights leader Marcus Garvey and four others in one of his last acts in office.
This historic pardon culminates a decades-long fight by Marcus Garvey’s descendants and supporters to right the wrongs of a what many regarded as a politically motivated conviction.
It's not clear whether Biden, who leaves office Monday, will pardon people who have been criticized or threatened by President-elect Donald Trump.
On Tuesday, former 31st House Delegate Elizabeth Guzman announced on X she has launched a campaign for Virgina's 22nd House of Delegates District. The district, which encompasses the western end of Prince William County,
Black nationalist and activist Marcus Garvey, who was convicted of mail fraud in 1923, received a posthumous pardon from the U.S. government in the waning hours of President Joe Biden’s tenure.
One of the first official acts of President Donald Trump’s second term was to pardon nearly 1,500 rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol.