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Marc Lamont Hill on how George Floyd's martyrdom changed America, and why cops and prisons can't deliver justice

Salon · May 15, 2022

A white librettist wrote an opera about Emmett Till – and some critics are calling for its cancellation

“Are Black audiences, actors, and producers simply conditioned to having their stories told by white counterparts?” screenwriter and director Darian Lane, who is Black, wondered in a 2021 op-ed for Ebony.

The Conversation · May 5, 2022

Tony Norman: Yesterday, a child was murdered ...

PITTSBURGH — Lynching is now a federal hate crime. President Joe Biden signed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Law into effect on March 29 at the White House. It took more than a century and 200 attempts by lawmakers to get legislation to a president's desk.

Tribune News Service · Apr 6, 2022

‘Historic injustice’: Biden makes lynching a US hate crime

Joe Biden signs anti-lynching law named after Emmett Till, a Black teen who was brutally killed in Mississippi in 1955.

Al Jazeera · Mar 29, 2022

EXPLAINER: What's behind the new federal anti-lynching law?

The history of racial violence in the U.S. is the backdrop as President Joe Biden signs the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act into law

The Independent UK · Mar 29, 2022

Biden signs into law first anti-lynching bill in U.S. history

The historic bill makes lynching a federal hate crime and comes after more than 200 attempts to codify federal anti-lynching legislation.

Axios · Mar 29, 2022

Biden signs federal anti-lynching bill into law - Roll Call

Hate crime conspiracies leading to serious injury or death would be subject to federal sentences of up to 30 years under the new law.

Roll Call · Mar 29, 2022

Who gets to tell Emmett Till's story?

Students are protesting an opera they claim centers white guilt. The show’s creators completely disagree.

Mic · Mar 24, 2022

Taraji P. Henson isn’t here to debate Jussie Smollett’s innocence. She wants him freed

“Empire” star Taraji P. Henson is defending her TV son, Jussie Smollett, after the actor was recently convicted on charges of staging a hate crime and sentenced to 150 days in jail.

Los Angeles Times · Mar 14, 2022

Emmett Till’s family calls for murder charges against accuser in 1955 lynching

Justice Department reopened, then closed, renewed probe into Black teenager’s killing

The Independent UK · Mar 12, 2022