On his last full day in office on Sunday, President Biden issued five pardons, including one for political activist and black nationalist Marcus Garvey.

President Biden pardoned political activist and Black nationalist Marcus Garvey and four others on Sunday on his last day in office.

This historic pardon culminates a decades-long fight by Marcus Garvey’s descendants and supporters to right the wrongs of a what many regarded as a politically motivated conviction.

Dr. Julius Garvey pushes for his father Marcus Garvey, who died in 1940, to receive a posthumous presidential pardon.

Joe Biden made history in criminal justice reform, granting five pardons, including a posthumous one for civil rights icon Marcus Garvey.

President Biden posthumously pardoned Marcus Garvey, along with advocates for various causes. He commuted sentences for individuals, including gun violence prevention activist Darryl Chambers.

AFTER appeals to several leaders of the United States, including the man dubbed America’s first black president, Bill Clinton, and the official first black president, Barack Obama, it took an 82-year-old white man from Delaware, the 46th president of the US, to finally act on calls to pardon Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jamaica’s first national hero.

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

Outgoing US president Biden issued a batch of pardons on Sunday, as well as commuting two Americans' sentences.

Kemba Smith Pradia was convicted of a non-violent drug offense in 1994, despite never selling or using drugs. She was sentenced to 24 year and served 6.5 years in prison for conspiracy to distributte.

Donald Trump's inauguration will steal the thunder, but Monday also is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. This is only the third time the federal holiday—always on the third Monday in January—has coincided with a presidential inauguration,