Saturday 18 December 2021

Opinion: How to stop Black people from meeting my cousin Emmett Till's fate

In 1955, Emmett Till, a Black boy who was just 14 and a mere five foot four inches tall, was kidnapped and brutally tortured by White men -- all for allegedly whistling at a White woman. Yet, more than six decades later, lynching is still not a federal hate crime.


from CNN.com - RSS Channel - HP Hero https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/18/opinions/emmett-till-justice-antilynching-legislation-gordon/index.html
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