President Joe Biden pardons five people and commutes the sentence of two others who "made significant contributions to improving their communities."

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.

US President Joe Biden has pardoned five people including the late civil rights activist Marcus Garvey, the White House said Sunday, just hours before he cedes the Oval Office to Donald Trump.

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.

Robert Montague says the decision of U.S. President Joe Biden to issue a posthumous pardon to Jamaica’s first National Hero, Marcus Mosiah Garvey is a “step in the right direction”. The pardon was announced on Sunday,

Opposition Leader Mark Golding has lauded U.S. President Joe Biden’s exoneration of Jamaican National Hero and Pan-Africanist, Marcus Mosiah Garvey. Garvey, who was convicted of mail fraud in 1923 and imprisoned from 1925 to 1927 before being deported,

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

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.

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.

Congressional leaders had pushed for Biden to pardon Garvey, with supporters arguing that Garvey's mail fraud conviction in the 1920s was politically motivated and an effort to silence the increasingly popular leader who spoke of racial pride.

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