Marcus Garvey was a Jamaican civil rights activist, the founding father of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) ...
The widespread favorable media response to the pardon speaks to the enduring usefulness of Garvey’s brand of identity ...
After President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned Marcus Garvey -- and despite assertions that the action represents an exoneration -- members of the government he founded continue their demands for ...
President Joe Biden announced a series of last-minute pardons before leaving office Monday, granting preemptive pardons to ...
President Joe Biden has posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other Black civil ...
Civil rights advocates and lawmakers have long said that Mr. Garvey’s 1923 conviction for mail fraud was unjust, arguing that ...
America is a country,” Pres. Joe Biden said in a statement announcing the pardon alongside four others, “built on the promise ...
In a final round of clemency, Biden approves the pardons of activists Marcus Garvey, Kemba Smith Pradia, and more before he leaves office.
“As if there should be some kind of gratitude, it’s like ‘Who the hell is the U.S. to pardon Marcus Garvey?.” And while the Garvey family shares similar sentiments that the celebration and ...
The news on Jan. 19 came after decades of hard work by his family and by many Jamaicans who revere him as their political scion. Marcus Garvey, born in Jamaica when it was still a British colony ...
It was the Great Depression and the family had been living in London after Marcus Garvey — the prominent 20th century Black Nationalist — was convicted of one count of mail fraud, which forced ...