T he family of embattled civil rights icon Marcus Garvey is encouraging the Biden administration in its final days to pardon the man Martin Luther King, Jr. posthumously described as "the first on ...

On Sunday, President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned Marcus Garvey, the influential Black nationalist who inspired leaders like Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Garvey was convicted of ...

"Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. described Mr. Garvey as 'the first man of color in the history of the United States to lead and develop a mass movement,'" Biden said in a statement.

President Biden on Sunday pardoned Marcus Garvey, ... scale and level” to give millions of Black people “a sense of dignity and destiny,” the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once said of Garvey.

Marcus Garvey was born on Aug. 17, 1887, in St. Ann’s ... The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once said Garvey “was the first man of color in the history of the United States to lead and develop a ...

A message of unity shared by the community. Ahead of MLK Jr. Day, the St. Louis region honored the legacy of the civil rights activist. Biden pardons revolutionary Marcus Garvey on last full day ...

Following his conviction, Garvey was deported to his home country of Jamaica. He died in 1940. Late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. spoke highly of Garvey's impact on the movement.

"Marcus Garvey was the first man of color in the history of the United States to lead and develop a mass movement," the late Martin Luther King Jr. said of Garvey in 1965.

Martin Luther King Jr. described Garvey as “the first man of color in the history of the United States to lead and develop a mass movement,” according to the White House statement.