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Decades after Emmett Till’s death, Biden signs law making lynching a federal hate crime
WASHINGTON — Nearly 70 years after 14-year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped and murdered in Mississippi by two white men, President Joe Biden signed into law on Tuesday a bill to make lynching a federal hate crime. “Lynching was pure terror to enforce the lie that not everyone belongs in America,” Biden said at the Rose […]
Pa. Rep. Evans: U.S. House vote to make lynching a federal hate crime ‘sends a strong message’
The House version of the bill is expected to clear the Senate later this week, during Black History Month