The House Judiciary Committee has passed the Emmett Till Anti-lynching Act (H.R. 55), legislation introduced by U.S. Representative Bobby L. Rush (D-Ill.) that would for the first time designate lynching as a federal hate crime. There have been more than 200 attempts since 1900 to make lynching a federal crime . More than 6,500 Black […]

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