Ariana Figueroa, Nebraska Examiner On what would have been the 82nd birthday of Emmett Till, a Black boy kidnapped and murdered by two white men in Mississippi, President Joe Biden on Tuesday designated a new national monument at sites connected to the lynching that became a catalyst for the Civil …
Read More »Biden Signs Bill Making Lynching A Federal Hate Crime
On Tuesday, President Joe Biden signed into law the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, legislation that makes lynching a federal hate crime. “Lynching was pure terror to enforce the lie that not everyone … belongs in America, not everyone is created equal,” President Biden said during a ceremony at the White …
Read More »Senate to Honor Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley With Congressional Gold Medal
The United States Senate has passed a bill to posthumously award Emmett Till and his mother Mamie Till-Mobley the Congressional Gold Medal. Till was tortured and murdered by two white men, K.W. Milam and his half-brother Roy Bryant, after Bryant’s wife, Carolyn, claimed he whistled to her at a grocery store …
Read More »DOJ Closes Cold Case Re-Investigation of Murder of Emmett Till
The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division and the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Mississippi announced Monday that it had closed its investigation into a witness’s alleged recantation of her account of the events leading up to the murder of Emmett Till. The investigation was …
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