On Sunday, Biden issued five other pardons, including one for the late Pan-Africanist and Black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey, who was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s. Biden also pardoned the New York-based immigrant rights leader Ravi Ragbir, who spoke to Democracy Now! on Sunday night.

Ravi Ragbir: “This has meant a lot for my family and myself, because it stops the continued punishment that I have faced throughout the last two decades, where I every day was uncertain because I faced the possibility of deportation. In fact, in 2018, ICE made a concerted effort to kidnap me and with the intention to deport me. And it’s only because of community support that I’m still standing.”

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Biden also pardoned gun violence prevention advocate Darryl Chambers, Virginia House Speaker Don Scott and criminal justice reform advocate Kemba Smith Pradia.