President Joe Biden granted a posthumous pardon to the late Black nationalist Marcus Garvey as ... Don Leonard Scott Jr. of Portsmouth, Virginia and Kemba Smith Pradia of Ashburn, Virginia. ...

On his final full day in office, President Biden pardoned Virginia House Speaker Don Scott — who was convicted of a nonviolent drug offense in 1994 — and posthumously pardoned Black ...

Garvey, who was born in 1887 in Jamaica and died in 1940, was known across the globe as the leader of the “back to Africa” movement, which sought to create a self-governing Black nation.

・Marcus Mosiah Garvey – Posthumous Pardon. ... Portsmouth, Virginia. Scott, a U.S. Navy veteran, was convicted of a non-violent drug offense in 1994 and sentenced to 10 years in prison.

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.

FILE - Virginia House of Delegates speaker, Del. Don Scott, D-Portsmouth, waves to family in the gallery during the opening of the 2024 session of the Virginia General Assembly at the Capitol, Jan ...

Biden pardons revolutionary Marcus Garvey on last full day in office. ... (D-Portsmouth), ... he became an attorney and was ultimately elected to the Virginia legislature in 2019, ...

Virginia House of Delegates speaker, Del. Don Scott, D-Portsmouth, waves to family in the gallery during the opening of the 2024 session of the Virginia General Assembly at the Capitol, Jan. 10 ...

President Joe Biden granted a posthumous pardon to civil rights leader Marcus Garvey and granted pardons or commuted the sentences of a half-dozen other people Sunday, his final day in office.