Marcus Garvey was a Jamaican civil rights activist, the founding father of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), and an owner of the Black Star Line shipping company.

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X ...

Civil rights advocates and lawmakers have long said that Mr. Garvey’s 1923 conviction for mail fraud was unjust, arguing that ...

President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned civil rights leader and Pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey, along with four others, and commuted two sentences.

Marcus Garvey is viewed by many as a civil rights icon who was ostracized by his own government. Advocates are again pressing ...

America is a country,” Pres. Joe Biden said in a statement announcing the pardon alongside four others, “built on the promise of second chances.” ...

Marcus Garvey ignited one of the most phenomenal social movements in modern history and was admired around the world. Yet few today understand his quest to promote the economic and cultural ...

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

In this August 1922 file photo, Marcus Garvey is shown in a military uniform ... the increasingly popular leader who spoke of racial pride. After Garvey was convicted, he was deported to Jamaica, ...

Congressional leaders had pushed for Biden to pardon Garvey, with supporters arguing that Garvey’s conviction was politically motivated and an effort to silence the increasingly popular leader who ...

President Biden on Sunday pardoned Marcus Garvey, one of the first Black civil rights leaders, more than 80 years after ...