U.S. President Joe Biden pardoned five people on Sunday, including the late civil rights leader Marcus Garvey, and commuted the sentences of two, the White House said in a statement.

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.

Biden posthumously pardons Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, and pardons activists Ravi Ragbir and Kemba Smith Pradia.

President Joe Biden pardoned five people Sunday, including the late civil rights activist Marcus Garvey, hours before he cedes the Oval Office to Donald Trump. | TAG24

Congressional leaders had pushed for Biden to pardon Garvey, with supporters arguing that Garvey’s conviction was politically motivated and an effort to silence the increasingly popular leader who spoke of racial pride.

WASHINGTON — 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 advocates for immigrant rights, criminal justice reform and gun violence prevention.