Mar 29 Watch 7:19 Biden signs law making lynching a federal hate crime By Amna Nawaz, Tess Conciatori, Tyriana Evans The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act became law on Tuesday, a bipartisan step towards acknowledging the history of racial violence in the United States. Amna Nawaz reports on the law's significance and what it took to get here. Continue watching
Mar 29 WATCH: President Biden signs the Emmett Till anti-lynching bill into law By Darlene Superville, Associated Press Biden acknowledged the long delay, stressing how the violent deaths of Black Americans were used to intimidate them and prevent them from voting simply because of their skin color. Continue reading
Jan 12 Senate passes bill to give Congressional Gold Medal to Emmett Till and his mother By Associated Press The Senate has passed a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to Emmett Till, the Chicago teenager murdered by white supremacists in the 1950s, and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley. Continue reading
Sep 16 Senators seek highest civilian honor for Emmett Till and his mother By Associated Press Till was a black teenager lynched in Mississippi in 1955 by white men who were later acquitted despite eyewitness testimony tying them to the killing. He had been accused of whistling at a white woman. Continue reading
Feb 26 Congress makes lynching a federal crime, 65 years after Emmett Till By Matthew Daly, Associated Press The bill, introduced by Illinois Rep. Bobby Rush and named after Till, comes 120 years after Congress first considered anti-lynching legislation. Continue reading
Jul 12 Watch 8:55 The brutal Emmett Till murder case is being reopened. Here’s what we know Based on new information, the Justice Department is reopening the investigation into the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, the African-American boy whose brutal killing by two white men in Mississippi became a galvanizing event that helped spark the civil rights… Continue watching
Dec 10 Congress sends bill to Obama on civil rights-era killings By Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press Congress has sent legislation to President Barack Obama's desk that would continue reviews of racially motivated killings in the civil rights era that are now cold cases. Continue reading
Nov 09 Watch Veteran Journalist Ed Bradley Dies of Leukemia Complications at Age 65 "60 Minutes" correspondent Ed Bradley died Wednesday night in a Manhattan hospital of complications resulting from chronic lymphocytic leukemia. A pioneering black journalist, Bradley won 19 Emmys for his work. Continue watching