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.

It was the Great Depression and the family had been living in London after Marcus Garvey - the prominent 20th century Black Nationalist - was convicted of one count of mail fraud, which forced him to leave the U.

Marcus Garvey was a Jamaican civil rights activist, the founding father of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), and an owner of the Black Star Line shipping company.

President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned civil rights leader and Pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey, along with four others, and commuted two sentences.

President Joe Biden granted a posthumous pardon to the late Black nationalist Marcus Garvey as well as four other justice advocates who had been convicted of non-violent drug offenses.

Congressional leaders had pushed for Biden to pardon Garvey, with supporters arguing that Garvey’s conviction was politically motivated and an effort to silence the increasingly popular leader who spoke of racial pride.

Joe Biden "accomplished something that President Obama didn't do," 91-year-old Julius Garvey told Newsweek about his father's posthumous pardon.

The former president’s unexpectedly powerful farewell address rightly condemned the very oligarchy he empowered.