On his last full day as President, Biden issued pardons for 5 people including Don Scott, Marcus Garvey, and Kemba Pradia, a Richmond-born prison reform activist.
Scott, the first Virginia House of Delegates speaker, served seven years in prison ... The posthumous pardon of Marcus Garvey comes after a group of 21 Democratic members of the U.S. Congress signed a letter urging Biden to grant clemency to Garvey.
President Joe Biden has posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other Black civil rights leaders and was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s.
Scott, the first Virginia House of Delegates speaker ... The posthumous pardon of Marcus Garvey comes after a group of 21 Democratic members of the U.S. Congress signed a letter urging Biden ...
In one of his final acts in office, President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr., a seminal figure in the civil rights movement, whose advocacy for Black nationalism
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Last week, the Virginia House of Delegates approved his bill, House Bill 1601, which would require cities and counties to conduct site assessments of the locations where they're considering ...
Not counting this seat, the West Virginia House of Delegates has 90 Republicans and nine Democrats. The state Democratic Party filed earlier this month for clarification by the state Supreme Court.
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On Joe Biden’s last day of presidency, he granted clemency to Marcus Garvey Sr. as part of a spate of dozens of pardons. “Advocates and lawmakers praise [Marcus Garvey’s] global advocacy and impact, and highlight the injustice underlying his criminal conviction.
Now, a year after Del. Don Scott, D-Portsmouth, made history as Virginia’s first Black speaker of the House of Delegates, he organized a look back at what those Virginians accomplished ...
As one of his last acts in office, President Joe Biden issued a posthumous pardon for Black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and generations of civil rights leaders.