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Marcus Garvey gets presidential pardon

More than a century after mail fraud conviction, Marcus Garvey gets presidential pardon

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

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Marcus Garvey pardon brings long-awaited joy to supporters

Julius Garvey receives long-awaited pardon for his father Marcus Garvey, a Black nationalist and activist. President Biden's last-minute action clears his name.

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Congresswoman welcomes posthumous pardon of Marcus Garvey

Caribbean-American Democratic Congresswoman, Yvette Clarke, has welcomed the posthumous pardon of Jamaica’s first national hero, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, by the outgoing United States (US) President Joe Biden.

WATCH: Mayor Swaby welcomes posthumous pardon of Marcus Garvey

The Mayor of Kingston, Andrew Swaby, has thanked former United States president Joe Biden for pardoning Marcus Garvey, ...

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Why was Marcus Garvey deported? Biden pardons civil rights leader on last full day in office

Marcus Garvey was a Jamaican civil rights activist, the founding father of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) ...

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‘Project a Black Planet’ is a history-making survey of Pan-African art

The massive Art Institute of Chicago exhibition, co-presented with museums in Barcelona and Brussels, will head to Europe ...

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Why now? Why Garvey?

Former President Joe Biden’s pardon of Marcus Garvey, while historic on the surface, drips with the kind of calculated opportunism that politicians have mastered over centuries. Let’s dissect ...

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