USA – Late civil rights leader Marcus Garvey was among five people pardoned by US President Joe Biden on Sunday. The outgoing president also commuted the sentences of two, the White House said in a statement. Garvey, Jamaica’s first National Hero who died in 1940, was convicted of mail fraud in 1923 and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment, a sentence that was commuted by US President Calvin Coolidge in 1927. The Jamaican is credited as the first man to organise a mass movement among African-Americans. He was also the founder of the Black Star Line shipping company and the pan-African organisation Universal Negro Improvement Association. Democratic lawmakers have lobbied Presidents for decades for a full pardon for Garvey, arguing that the charges against him were politically motivated. (Jamaicaobserver)