President Biden used his clemency power today, his last full day of presidency, to pardon 5 individuals and commute the ...

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

As President Joe Biden approaches the end of his term, he has announced a series of last-minute commutations and pardons, ...

A day before Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Biden recognized how the black leaders he spoke to helped vault him to the Oval Office. "I owe you big,” he said.

On his last full day in the White House President Joe Biden pardoned Virginia House Speaker Don Scott, D-Portsmouth, who served nearly eight years in prison on a drug-related offense.

It's not clear whether Biden, who leaves office Monday, will pardon people who have been criticized or threatened by ...

Hours before Jan. 19, after the Supreme Court upheld a law that would require TikTok be sold to a U.S.-held company in order ...

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

President Joe Biden pardoned five activists and public servants Sunday, including a posthumous grant of clemency to Civil ...

President Biden posthumously pardons Marcus Garvey Jr., a civil rights leader and advocate for Black nationalism, correcting historical injustices.

Del. Don Scott (D-Portsmouth), the first Black person to serve as speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, was convicted ...

Also receiving pardons were advocates for immigrant rights, criminal justice reform and gun violence prevention.