Virginia Speaker of the House of Delegates Don Scott says faith and family forged his path to redemption— a journey he hopes inspires anyone who has ever made a mistake.

Outgoing US president Biden issued a batch of pardons on Sunday, as well as commuting two Americans' sentences.

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President Joe Biden has posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other Black civil ...

On his last full day in the White House President Joe Biden pardoned Virginia House Speaker Don Scott, D-Portsmouth, who ...

President Joe Biden pardoned five people in his final day in office, including a prominent civil rights activist who died in ...

President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other civil ...

For over a century, civil rights leader Marcus Mosiah Garvey was demonized, misunderstood and left to the interpretations of the history books after being convicted of mail fraud in 1923 ...

Congressional leaders had pushed for Biden to pardon Garvey, with supporters arguing that Garvey’s conviction was politically ...

President Joe Biden announced a series of clemency actions on Sunday, pardoning five individuals and commuting the sentences ...

Del. Don Scott (D-Portsmouth), the first Black person to serve as speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, was convicted ...

On his final day in office, President Joe Biden pardoned five people, including a prominent civil rights activist who died in ...