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As President Joe Biden approaches the end of his term, he has announced a series of last-minute commutations and pardons, ...

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President Joe Biden has posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other Black civil ...

On his last full day in the White House President Joe Biden pardoned Virginia House Speaker Don Scott, D-Portsmouth, who served nearly eight years in prison on a drug-related offense.

President Joe Biden officially pardoned Virginia House Speaker Don Scott on the 1994 federal drug charges for which Scott previously served eight years in prison.

Del. Don Scott (D-Portsmouth), the first Black person to serve as speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, was convicted ...

On his last full day as President, Biden issued pardons for 5 people including Don Scott, Marcus Garvey, and Kemba Pradia, a ...

On his last full day as President, Biden issued pardons for 5 people including Don Scott, Marcus Garvey, and Kemba Pradia, a ...

The legislation comes about a year after a Chinese national was arrested for flying a drone over Newport News Shipbuilding, a ...

Don Scott, Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, received a presidential pardon from United States President Joe Biden ...