On his last full day in office on Sunday, President Biden issued five pardons, including one for political activist and black nationalist Marcus Garvey.
President Biden pardoned political activist and Black nationalist Marcus Garvey and four others on Sunday on his last day in office.
Dr. Julius Garvey pushes for his father Marcus Garvey, who died in 1940, to receive a posthumous presidential pardon.
President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey ... was sentenced to 24 years behind bars. President Bill Clinton commuted her sentence in 2000.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey ... President Bill Clinton commuted her sentence in 2000. —Darryl Chambers of Wilmington ...
It's not clear whether Biden, who leaves office Monday, will pardon people who have been criticized or threatened by President-elect Donald Trump.
AFTER appeals to several leaders of the United States, including the man dubbed America’s first black president, Bill Clinton, and the official first black president, Barack Obama, it took an 82-year-old white man from Delaware, the 46th president of the US, to finally act on calls to pardon Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jamaica’s first national hero.
The US dollar on Tuesday, January 21, ended trading at $157.26 up 27 cents according to the Bank of Jamaica’s daily exchange trading summary. Meanwhile, the Canadian dollar ended at $110.61 up from $109.
The Guyana-based Caribbean Community (Caricom) Secretariat has accepted an invitation from the Trinidad and Tobago government to send observers to the country’s next general elections, likely to be held in August this year.
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