Congressional leaders had pushed for Biden to pardon Garvey, with supporters arguing that Garvey’s conviction was politically ...

President Joe Biden announced a series of clemency actions on Sunday, pardoning five individuals and commuting the sentences ...

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.

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

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

President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other civil ...

On his final day in office, President Joe Biden pardoned five people, including a prominent civil rights activist who died in ...

President Joe Biden pardons five people and commutes the sentence of two others who "made significant contributions to ...

The president’s pardon of Garvey, a seminal figure of the civil rights movement, is another reflection of his presidency’s ...