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The U.S House of Representatives finally passed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching law that deems lynching a hate crime. For years, Black people faced this horrid form of hate and the culprits continued to run freely. This law finally brings justice to the lives lost to this brutal and unjust hate crime.

A new bill for Emmett Till

Ren Lloyd, Reporter
March 9, 2022
In 1955, African-American Emmett Till was tortured and killed by Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam after Bryant’s wife, Carolyn Bryant Donham, accused Till of grabbing and whistling at her in a Mississippi grocery store. Bryant and Milam were acquitted by an all-white, all-male jury; the men later confessed to the crime years later. In 2017, Donham acknowledged that Till did not make sexual advances toward her, contradicting her earlier testimony. Sixty-five years after Till’s death, Congress passed legislation classifying lynching as a federal hate crime.

Congress passes Emmett Till Antilynching Act

Maddie Dean, Opinions Editor
March 1, 2020
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