President Biden Signs Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act Into Law

President Biden Signs Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act Into Law

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Watch VideoPresident Joe Biden on Tuesday signed a bill into law to make lynching a federal hate crime, more than 100 years after such legislation was first proposed.

The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act is named after the Black teenager whose killing in Mississippi in the summer of 1955 became a galvanizing moment in the civil...

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