Cory Booker, Tim Scott and House representative Bobby Rush introduced the bill, named after Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy who was brutally kidnapped and murdered by two white men in ...

The brutal 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Chicagoan Emmett Till while visiting family in Mississippi, the subsequent trial of his killers, who were acquitted, and specifically the experiences and ...

'Justice for Emmett Till and many families who have civil rights cases pending at the DOJ is not a black issue.' ... 2020, Congress passed legislation making lynching a federal hate crime.

The law is named for Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy who was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 1955. The bill makes it possible to prosecute as a lynching any conspiracy to commit a hate ...

The Justice Department announced in December 2021 that it had closed an investigation into Ms. Bryant, who was quoted in a 2017 book, “The Blood of Emmett Till,” as saying that she had lied ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., who introduced the Emmett Till Antilynching Act in the House in February, about the Act and the Arbery case.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., signs H.R. 55, the "Emmett Till Antilynching Act" which designates lynching as a hate crime under federal law, during a ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington ...

The Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crimes Act, passed in 2007, established a cold case unit in the DOJ to investigate, and hopefully bring justice, in murder cases like Till’s that involve ...

We’re joined by Emmett Till’s cousin and best friend, Reverend Wheeler Parker Jr., who was 16 years old when he witnessed Till’s abduction from his great-uncle’s home in Money, Mississippi ...

BOONEVILLE, Miss. (AP) — Emmett Till's cousin says people should learn about the black teenager's brutal death that energized the civil rights movement. But the Rev. Wheeler Parker also says ...

The Hate U Give transcends the issues because of the legitimate ... It gets really insidious when Starr’s white friends protest to be “woke” but resist Starr’s comparisons to Emmett Till.

Legislation that would make lynching a federal hate crime in the U.S. is expected to be signed into law by President Joe Biden. The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act was years in the making. (Chicago ...