Joe Biden has pardoned five people including the late civil rights leader, Marcus Garvey, on his last day in office as the US president. Recall that Marcus was a civil rights leader who influenced pioneer leaders such as Malcolm X and South African President Nelson Mandela.
In 1923, he was convicted of mail fraud and was sentenced to five years of imprisonment, but his sentence was lessened by President Calvin Coolidge in 1927.

Garvey was described as the first man of colour in the history of the United States to lead and develop a mass movement by Martin Luther King Jr, and his global advocacy and impact are praised by advocates and lawmakers, also highlighting the injustice surrounding his criminal conviction.
According to a White House Statement, other people pardoned by President Biden on his final day in office include gun violence prevention advocate, Darryl Chambers, who was convicted of a non-violent drug offence, and immigration advocate, Ravidath “Ravi” Ragbir, who was convicted of a non-violent offence in 2001.
Biden also commuted the sentences of two individuals, Robin Peoples and Michelle West, who were sentenced in the 1990s and demonstrated remarkable rehabilitation.
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Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is an American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 47th vice president from 2009 to 2017 under President Barack Obama and represented Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009.
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was born on November 20, 1942, at St. Mary’s Hospital in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to Catherine Eugenia “Jean” Biden (née Finnegan) and Joseph Robinette Biden Sr. The oldest child in a Catholic family of English, French, and Irish descent, he has a sister, Valerie, and two brothers, Francis and James.
Biden was elected the 46th president of the United States in November 2020. He defeated the incumbent, Donald Trump, becoming the first candidate to defeat a sitting president since Bill Clinton defeated George H. W. Bush in 1992.
Trump refused to concede, insisting the election had been “stolen” from him through “voter fraud”, challenging the results in court and promoting numerous conspiracy theories about the voting and vote-counting processes, in an attempt to overturn the election results.
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