U.S. President Joe Biden signs anti-lynching bill
The HinduU.S. President Joe Biden has signed into law the first federal legislation that makes racist lynching a hate crime, putting an end to over a century of delays in outlawing what he called "pure terror." The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act is named after a 14-year-old Black boy whose brutal murder in the southern state of Mississippi galvanized the U.S. civil rights movement in the 1950s. 'Lynching not a relic of the past' On March 29, Vice President Kamala Harris said that with the signing of the bill, the president was addressing both "unfinished business" and "horror" in America's history. Harris, the nation's first Black and Asian American vice president, co- Biden also emphasized that forms of racial terror continue in the U.S., underlining a need for an anti-lynching statute.
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