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