Kemba Smith Pradia
Activist Kemba Smith Pradia on getting a second chance after presidential pardon: ‘I dropped to my knees’
During his final days in office, former President Joe Biden set a record for the most pardons and sentence commutations of any president. Biden’s pardon list of over 2,500 individuals serving excessively lengthy sentences for drug offenses included Kemba Smith Pradia, who was found guilty of a non-violent drug offense in 1994 and given a…
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Biden posthumously pardons Marcus Garvey, issues additional clemency actions
On Sunday, President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned Marcus Garvey, the influential Black nationalist...