President Biden issued five more pardons on Sunday on his last full day in office, including to political activist and black nationalist Marcus Garvey.
“America is a country built on the promise of second chances,” Biden said in a statement. “As president, I have used my clemency power to make that promise a reality, issuing more individual pardons and commutations than any other president in American history. Today, I am exercising my clemency power to pardon five individuals and commute the sentences of two. who have shown repentance, rehabilitation and redemption. These clemency recipients have each made significant contributions to improving their communities.
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In addition to Garvey, the clemency recipients are Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Ravidath “Ravi” Ragbir, Don Leonard Scott, Jr., and Kemba Smith Pradia. Garvey was posthumously pardoned.
Marcus Garvey, ‘Africa’s Provisional President’, is seen renaming ‘General GW Goethals’ ship to the SS Booker T. Washington, January 25, 1925. (NY Daily News via Getty Images)
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