Lynching now a hate crime in the U.S. — 100 years after 1st proposed
U.S. President Joe Biden signed a bill into law on Tuesday to make lynching a federal hate crime — more than 100 years after such legislation was first proposed.A plaque marks the gravesite of Emmett Till at Burr Oak Cemetery in Aslip, Illinois. The 14-year-old from Chicago was visiting relatives in Mississippi in August 1955…Continue Reading



