Among those being pardoned was Marcus Mosiah Garvey ... And the president granted clemency to Don Scott, who became the first Black Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates last year.

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

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

WASHINGTON D.C., DC — On his last full day as President of the United States, Joe Biden issued pardons for Virginia House Speaker Don Scott, the late Black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm ... Among those pardoned on Sunday were: — Don Scott, who is the speaker ...

WASHINGTON D.C., DC — On his last full day as President of the United States, Joe Biden issued pardons for Virginia House Speaker Don Scott, the late Black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey and ...

President Biden pardoned Virginia House Speaker Don Scott — who was convicted of a nonviolent drug offense in 1994 — and posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey — who was ...

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.