It was the Great Depression and the family had been living in London after Marcus Garvey - the prominent 20th century Black Nationalist - was convicted of one count of mail fraud, which forced him to leave the U.

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.

President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned civil rights leader and Pan-African activist Marcus Garvey, who was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s. Garvey served four years in prison until President Calvin Coolidge commuted his sentence in 1927,

The former president’s unexpectedly powerful farewell address rightly condemned the very oligarchy he empowered.