Stand at the corner of Auburn Avenue and Jessie Hill Jr. Drive, and wait for the wind to blow. Admire the blue letters “Jesus ...

Marcus Garvey, who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in 1914 and advocated for Black nationalism, was posthumously pardoned by President Joe Biden in one of his final acts ...

Additionally, outside of Garvey, Biden also pardoned Ravidath “Ravi” Ragbir, an immigrant rights activist who was convicted of a nonviolent crime in 2001; Kemba Smith Pradi a, a criminal ...

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.” ...

This historic pardon culminates a decades-long fight by Marcus Garvey’s descendants and supporters to right the wrongs of a what many regarded as a politically motivated conviction.

The others Joe Biden pardoned were Ravi Ragbir, an immigrant rights advocate from New York, Don Leonard Scott, Jr., the first Black Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates and Kemba Smith ...

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." ...

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.” ...

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

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.” ...