March 15, 2022
“Lynching has always been a terrorist weapon in the hands of racists in the history of our nation," Illinois Democratic Rep. Bobby Rush said in an interview earlier this year. Just as important, he added, is that it remains so — a continuing weapon to “promote racialized terror." Photo courtesy Rep. Bobby Rush
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EXPLAINER: What's Behind Federal Anti-Lynching Legislation?
President Joe Biden is expected to sign into law the first bill that specifies lynching as a federal hate crime. The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act, which Congress passed on March …
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