The road to Garvey’s presidential pardon is a story of tireless activism by human rights leaders, Garvey’s descendants and ...

President Joe Biden has posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other Black civil rights leaders and was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s.

The widespread favorable media response to the pardon speaks to the enduring usefulness of Garvey’s brand of identity ...

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

Garvey, one of the earliest internationally-known Black civil rights leaders, was convicted of mail fraud in 1923.

Successive governments of Jamaica had called for Garvey to be pardoned for 40 years, making the first appeal to Ronald Reagan and the last to Biden. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Garvey’s ...