President Joe Biden announced a series of clemency actions on Sunday, pardoning five individuals and commuting the sentences of two others, calling these pardons an effort to uphold America’s promise of second chances.

President Joe Biden pardons five people and commutes the sentence of two others who "made significant contributions to improving their communities."

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.

The president’s pardon of Garvey, a seminal figure in the civil rights movement, is another reflection of his presidency’s ties to the Black community.

President Joe Biden pardoned five people on Sunday, including the late civil rights leader Marcus Garvey, and commuted the sentences of two.

President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other civil rights leaders and was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s. Also receiving pardons were a top Virginia lawmaker and advocates for immigrant rights,

President Joe Biden pardoned five people in his final day in office, including a prominent civil rights activist who died in the 1940s and the speaker of the Virginia House. The president pardoned the late Marcus Garvey,

President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s. Biden also pardoned

FILE - In this August 1922 file photo, Marcus Garvey is shown ... (AP Photo/File) FILE - Virginia House of Delegates speaker, Del. Don Scott, D-Portsmouth, waves to family in the gallery during ...

President Biden pardoned Virginia House Speaker Don Scott — who was convicted of a nonviolent drug offense in 1994 — and posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey — who was ...

Congressional leaders had pushed for Biden to pardon Garvey, with supporters arguing that Garvey’s conviction was politically motivated and an effort to silence the increasingly popular leader who spoke of racial pride.

Virginia Speaker of the House of Delegates Don Scott says faith and family forged his path to redemption— a journey he hopes inspires anyone who has ever made a mistake.