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.

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 Biden on Sunday pardoned Marcus Garvey, one of the first Black civil rights leaders, more than 80 years after Garvey’s death.

The president’s pardon of Garvey, a seminal figure in the civil rights movement, is another reflection of his presidency’s ties to the Black community.

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.

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

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,

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

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 justice.

The Principal of Alphansus Davis High, the Clarendon school at which two female students were allegedly given alcohol and the drug molly by a male teacher last Friday, says the board is to meet later this week to discuss the allegations.

In a final round of clemency, Biden approves the pardons of activists Marcus Garvey, Kemba Smith Pradia, and more before he leaves office.