America is a country,” Pres. Joe Biden said in a statement announcing the pardon alongside four others, “built on the promise of second chances.”

Mr. Biden's pardons in recent days come after the president made the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history in December by commuting the sentences of around 1,500 people and pardoning nearly 40 Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes. Earlier that month, he also issued a pardon for his son, Hunter Biden.

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

President Biden pardoned political activist and Black nationalist Marcus Garvey and four others on Sunday on his last day in office.

President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned civil rights leader Marcus Garvey and four others in one of his last acts in office.

US President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Jamaica’s first National Hero Marcus Mosiah Garvey, the organizer of a mass black rights movement, the Universal Negro Improvement Association, who was convicted on charges largely believed to have been bogus in the United States in the 1920s.

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

U.S. President Joe Biden pardoned five people on Sunday, including the late civil rights leader Marcus Garvey, and commuted the sentences of two, the White House said in a statement.

After President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned Marcus Garvey -- and despite assertions that the action represents an exoneration -- members of the government he founded continue their demands for justice.

Officials say rescuers recover 16 bodies from flash floods and a landslide on Indonesia's main island of Java.

Deadly wildfires continued to ravage parts of southern California in January 2025 but there were no official reports the US state was also recently hit by a tsunami, contrary to rumours repeatedly shared on social media.