Biden Signs Bill to Make Lynching a Federal Crime
President Joe Biden has signed into law the first federal legislation that makes lynching a federal hate crime. Legislation is named after 14-year-old Emmett Till, who was brutally murdered in a racist attack in Mississippi in 1955 – an event that drew national attention to the atrocities and violence that African Americans faced.
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