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

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.

The widespread favorable media response to the pardon speaks to the enduring usefulness of Garvey’s brand of identity ...

President Joe Biden has posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other Black civil rights leaders and was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s.

August 17 has also been officially proclaimed “Marcus Garvey Day” in the state of New York. “I’m all about telling these underrepresented stories of our people and the theme that resonated ...

Marcus Garvey ignited one of the most phenomenal social movements in modern history and was admired around the world. Yet few ...

Among those being pardoned was Marcus Mosiah Garvey, who was granted clemency posthumously ... after the president made the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history in December ...

Activist Marcus Garvey and his namesake ideology, Garveyism, advocated for Black separatism and nationalism. Read about his ...

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

President Biden issued five more pardons on Sunday on his last full day in office, including for political activist and Black nationalist Marcus Garvey. "America is a country built on the promise ...

President Joe Biden granted a posthumous pardon to civil rights leader Marcus Garvey and granted pardons or commuted the sentences of a half-dozen other people Sunday, his final day in office.