.MaddowBlog: Over the last several decades, there have been roughly 200 attempts to approve anti-lynching legislation. Each failed. This year, however, was different.
overnight that both chambers of Congress have now passed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act.
Congress gave final approval Monday to legislation that for the first time would make lynching a federal hate crime in the U.S. sending the bill to President Joe Biden to sign into law.... The bill would make it possible to prosecute a crime as a lynching when a conspiracy to commit a hate crime results in death or serious bodily injury, according to the bill’s champion, Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill. The maximum sentence under the Anti-Lynching Act is 30 years.
“The first anti-lynching legislation was introduced a century ago, and after so long, the Senate has now finally addressed one of the most shameful elements of this nation’s past by making lynching a federal crime,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on the floor last night. “That it took so long is a stain — a bitter stain — on America.
“While this will not erase the horrific injustices to which tens of thousands of African Americans have been subjected over the generations — nor fully heal the terror inflicted on countless others — it is an important step forward as we continue the work of confronting our nation’s past in pursuit of a brighter and more just future.”
The Senate approved by the bill by unanimous consent. A week earlier, the House passed the same bill,
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