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 ...

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.

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.” ...

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." It's not clear whether Biden ...

Pardoning Garvey is long overdue. It is also admitting, weak as it is, the wrong that America has done to people who 1: looked like Garvey and 2: thought as he did. I hope it does not end here.

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.