America is a country,” Pres. Joe Biden said in a statement announcing the pardon alongside four others, “built on the promise of second chances.”

Attorney-at-law and Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) spokesman, Donovan Williams is chiding Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding for inaccurately stating by way of a statement on Sunday that Marcus Garvey was exonerated by the United States Government.

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has welcomed the decision by the United States to grant posthumous clemency to Jamaica’s first National Hero, Marcus Mosiah Garvey. Holness thanked outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden,

Jamaica's first national hero, Marcus Garvey, has today received a posthumous pardon from U.S. President Joe Biden.

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

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.

Today, the Government and people of Jamaica proudly welcome the historic decision of the Government of the United States of America to grant posthumous clemency to our nation’s first national hero, Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887–1940).

Mr Garvey urged black people struggling for self-respect and identity in the aftermath of enslavement and unspeakable oppression to “canonise our own saints, create our own martyrs, and elevate to positions of fame and honour black men and women who have made their distinct contribution…”

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