Biden pardoned five more people
Outgoing US President Joe Biden has pardoned five people, including the late civil rights activist Marcus Garvey, while commuting the sentences of two people, the White House said.
Garvey, who died in 1940, was a civil rights activist convicted of mail fraud in 1923 and sentenced to five years in prison. The sentence was commuted in 1927 by President Calvin Coolidge.
Civil rights groups credit Garvey as the first man to organize a mass movement among African Americans. The White House said he founded the Black Star Line shipping company and an association that celebrated African history and culture, the Universal Negro Improvement Association.
Others pardoned include Darryl Chambers, a gun violence prevention advocate who was convicted of a nonviolent drug-related crime, and immigration lawyer Ravidath "Ravi" Ragbir, who was also convicted of a nonviolent crime in 2001, the White House said.
Biden commuted the sentences of two people convicted in the 1990s, whom he praised for their remarkable rehabilitation: Robin Peoples and Michelle West. Biden also pardoned his own son earlier.
Today is Joe Biden's last full day as president, as he hands over the reins to his successor, Donald Trump, tomorrow.
