WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 17: Melvin Footo, CEO and president of Constituency for Africa, speaks at a news conference on what would have been the 129th birthday of prominent Pan-Africanism movement advocate Marcus Garvey at the National Press Club August 17, 2016 in Washington, DC. The family of Marcus Garvey has recently petitioned the Department of Justice and White House counsel requesting a posthumous presidential pardon on the political leader's conviction in 1923 for mail fraud in the U.S.. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)