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Entertainers Queen Ifrica, Nadine Sutherland, and Spragga Benz, along with selector Foota Hype, are among those reacting to the U.S. posthumous pardon of Jamaica’s first National Hero, Marcus Garvey.
On Sunday, outgoing President Joe Biden granted the pardon, nearly 101 years after Garvey’s conviction for mail fraud in 1923—a case widely criticized for racial bias.
Prime Minister Andrew Holness called the move a “first step toward the total exoneration and expungement of this historical injustice.”
Queen Ifrica, in an Instagram Live, questioned the relevance of Garvey’s pardon.