AFTER appeals to several leaders of the United States, including the man dubbed America’s first black president, Bill Clinton, and the official first black president, Barack Obama, it took an 82-year-old white man from Delaware, the 46th president of the US, to finally act on calls to pardon Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jamaica’s first national hero.

Civil rights advocates and lawmakers have long said that Mr. Garvey’s 1923 conviction for mail fraud was unjust, arguing that he was targeted for his work.

US President Joe Biden has 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 Mr Biden to pardon Mr Garvey,

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.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm ... She has since become a prison reform activist. President Bill Clinton commuted her sentence in 2000.

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,

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

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey ... President Bill Clinton commuted her sentence in 2000. It’s still not clear whether ...

After Garvey was convicted ... She has since become a prison reform activist. President Bill Clinton commuted her sentence in 2000. —Darryl Chambers of Wilmington, Delaware, a gun violence ...

President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey ... since become a prison reform activist. President Bill Clinton commuted her sentence in 2000.Darryl Chambers ...

Shomari Davis, 30, went viral on Tiktok for his positive reaction to the news. “Biden just pardoned Marcus Garvey, bro! On his last day of office,” he said. “Like how much more OG can you be?

MEMBER of Parliament for St Andrew South Western, Dr Angela Brown Burke is calling for an expansion of Marcus Garvey’s teachings beyond the school curriculum, in order to preserve the legacy of ...