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.

Attorney-at-law and Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) spokesman, Donovan Williams is chiding Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding for inaccurately stating by way of a statement on Sunday that Marcus Garvey was exonerated by the United States Government.

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

President Joe Biden announced a series of last-minute pardons on Sunday, granting clemency to five individuals, including a posthumous pardon for Marcus Garvey, the late civil rights leader and founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association.

President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other civil rights leaders and was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s. Also receiving pardons were a top Virginia lawmaker and advocates for immigrant rights,

It's not clear whether Biden, who leaves office Monday, will pardon people who have been criticized or threatened by President-elect Donald Trump.

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

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 spoke of racial pride.

The Caribbean Community (Caricom) on Sunday expressed “its profound gratitude” to the outgoing Biden administration after it gave a posthumous pardon to Jamaica’s  national hero, Marcus Mosiah Garvey,

President Joe Biden issued another round of pardons on Sunday, including a posthumous one for Black nationalist Marcus Garvey.

The Caribbean Community [CARICOM] has expressed joy at the posthumous pardon granted by US President Joe Biden to National Hero, civil rights act