Biden Posthumously Pardons Civil Rights Leader Marcus Garvey

President Joe Biden granted a posthumous pardon to the late Black nationalist Marcus Garvey as well as four other justice advocates who had been convicted of non-violent drug offenses.

The White House issued the pardon list hours before Biden was to pay a final visit as president to South Carolina, whose black voters he credits with helping elect him to the White House.

Garvey was a Black nationalist icon convicted of mail fraud in 1923. His sentence was previously commuted by President Calvin Coolidge, and he died in 1940. Martin Luther King Jr. described Garvey as “the first man ...