Biden pardons Virginia House Speaker Don Scott, Black nationalist Marcus Garvey
Virginia’s First Black House Speaker and Marcus Garvey are Pardoned by President Biden on His Last Day in Office
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Biden pardons the late Black nationalist Marcus Garvey as well as 4 others and commutes 2 sentences
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.
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.
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 posthumously pardoned civil rights leader and Pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey, along with four others, and commuted two sentences.
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.
President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned civil rights leader Marcus Garvey and four others in one of his last acts in office.
It's not clear whether Biden, who leaves office Monday, will pardon people who have been criticized or threatened by President-elect Donald Trump.
In one of his final acts in office, President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr., a seminal figure in the civil rights movement, whose advocacy for Black nationalism
On Joe Biden’s last day of presidency, he granted clemency to Marcus Garvey Sr. as part of a spate of dozens of pardons. “Advocates and lawmakers praise [Marcus Garvey’s] global advocacy and impact, and highlight the injustice underlying his criminal conviction.
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