“President Biden pardoned five activists and public servants on Sunday, including a posthumous grant of clemency to the civil rights leader Marcus Garvey, who mobilized the Black nationalist movement and was convicted of mail fraud in 1923,” the New York Times reports.
“Mr. Biden also commuted the sentence of two other people who are serving sentences for crimes that they committed in the 1990s that would keep them behind bars for the rest of their lives.
The two individuals, whose petitions have overwhelming support from civil rights activists, will be released next month, Mr. Biden said.”