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.

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 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,

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

Congressional leaders had pushed for Biden to pardon Garvey, with supporters arguing ... She has since become a prison reform activist. President Bill Clinton commuted her sentence in 2000.

President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey ... was sentenced to 24 years behind bars. President Bill Clinton commuted her sentence in 2000.

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 (AP) — President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey ... President Bill Clinton commuted her sentence in 2000. It’s still not clear whether ...

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

In one of his final acts in office, President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr., a seminal figure in the civil rights movement, whose advocacy for Black nationalism

President Biden’s legacy may get a boost, at least from activists and Black Nationalists, with his latest round of pardons and commutations.