Also pardoned were a top Virginia lawmaker and advocates for immigrant rights, criminal justice reform and gun violence prevention.

US President Joe Biden has posthumously pardoned black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other civil rights leaders and was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s. Congressional leaders had pushed for Mr Biden to pardon Mr Garvey,

It's not clear whether Biden, who leaves office Monday, will pardon people who have been criticized or threatened by President-elect Donald Trump.

President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned Marcus Garvey, a significant Black nationalist, while also pardoning other individuals including a prominent Virginia lawmaker and advocates for immigrant rights and criminal justice reform.

We’re legislating basic human needs here,” said Del. Holly Seibold, D-Fairfax, exhaling deeply as she waved a stack of letters from incarcerated people at her desk in Virginia’s General Assembly Building.

Henry L. Marsh III — a graduate of Maggie L. Walker High, Virginia Union University and Howard University Law School — left a mark on civil rights well beyond Richmond

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John McAuliff spent years in the background, helping make the machinery of government work. Now he wants a role out front, helping make the decisions that direct Virginia's course.

As data centers have been building up in Prince William County, so have frustrations from neighbors living near the facilities.

Virginia lawmakers advanced legislation to remove tax breaks from multiple Confederate groups after Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) vetoed a similar bill last year.

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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