President Joe Biden announced a series of last-minute pardons before leaving office Monday, granting preemptive pardons to some family members and other GOP foes, as well as a posthumous pardon for Marcus Garvey, the late civil rights leader and founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association.

In one of his final acts in office, President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr., a seminal figure in the civil rights movement, whose advocacy for Black nationalism and self-reliance left an indelible mark on leaders like Malcolm X and movements across the Black diaspora.

Marcus Mosiah Garvey was the most famous black man on the planet. The Jamaican-born black nationalist led the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), a mass movement of

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

He became world-renowned, as well as controversial, because of his actions and statements about black empowerment at a time when the concept was virtually unknown. Now, Marcus Garvey, the organizational leader who ended up being convicted of mail fraud a century ago,

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

President Joe Biden pardoned five activists and public servants Sunday, including a posthumous grant of clemency to Civil Rights leader Marcus Garvey, who mobilized the Black nationalist movement and was convicted of mail fraud in 1923.

President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned civil rights leader Marcus Garvey and four others in one of his last acts in office.

President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned Marcus Garvey, the influential Black nationalist who inspired leaders like Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

In one of his final acts in office, President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr., a seminal figure in the civil rights movement, whose advocacy for Black nationalism

Black nationalist and activist Marcus Garvey, who was convicted of mail fraud in 1923, received a posthumous pardon from the U.S. government in the waning hours of President Joe Biden’s tenure.