We know Marcus Garvey as a powerful figure in Black history who dedicated much of his life to promoting self-love among Black people and encouraging an eventual return to their ancestral homeland ...

Marcus Mosiah Garvey was born in Jamaica in 1887, then still under British rule. He left Jamaica in 1910 to work on the British-owned plantations.

On the last day of his presidency, Joe Biden pardoned the controversial black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey (1887-1940), among a handful of other last-minute pardons. The Garvey pardon had long ...

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

He died in 1940. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. said of Garvey: “He was the first man, on a mass scale and level” to give millions of Black people ”a sense of dignity and destiny.” ...

Garvey, one of the earliest internationally-known Black civil rights leaders, was convicted of mail fraud in 1923 and was given a five-year sentence, according to a letter sent to Biden from the ...

President Biden on Sunday pardoned Marcus Garvey, one of the nation’s first Black civil rights leaders, more than 80 years after Garvey’s death. Garvey was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s ...

Pan-African leader Marcus Mosiah Garvey, convicted of mail fraud in 1923 in the U.S., is buried at National Heroes Park in Kingston. His remains were brought to Jamaica in 1964 after his death in ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 ...

WASHINGTON — President 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.