David Hinds, co-founder and lead singer for Grammy-winning band Steel Pulse, is delighted that Marcus Garvey has been posthumously pardoned by United States President Joe Biden for charges of mail fraud in the 1920s.

Civil rights advocates and lawmakers have long said that Mr. Garvey’s 1923 conviction for mail fraud was unjust, arguing that he was targeted for his work.

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.

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

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.

Biden pardons civil rights leader Marcus Garvey and others, commutes sentences of two individuals, details in paragraph 2-7.

President Biden on Sunday pardoned Marcus Garvey, one of the first Black civil rights leaders, more than 80 years after Garvey’s death.

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President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s.

President Joe Biden pardoned five people on Sunday, including the late civil rights leader Marcus Garvey, and commuted the sentences of two.