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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

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

Commentary: Wiping away the stains of racism

On March 29, President Joe Biden signed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, making lynching a federal hate crime. Though we celebrate this historic moment, many are left questioning why this legislation took more than 100 years to enact.

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Biden signs Emmett Till anti-lynching bill: Rep. Bobby Rush championed measure for years

“Lynching is not a relic of the past,” said Vice President Kamala Harris.

Chicago Sun-Times

Joe Biden signs landmark law making lynching a hate crime

Kamala Harris and relatives of Ida B Wells and Emmett Till attend ceremony marking Emmett Till Antilynching Act

The Guardian - US

Biden signs federal anti-lynching bill into law

President Joe Biden has signed legislation to finally define lynching as a federal hate crime.

Tribune News Service

‘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.

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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

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

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

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

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

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

Emmett Till's family seeks justice

A murder charge is being sought for Carolyn Donham, who made accusations that led to Till's death 66 years ago

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Evening Standard

US passes Emmett Till anti-lynching bill after 200 attempts

The US Senate has unanimously passed legislation that will make lynching a federal hate crime, in a historic first that comes after more than a century of failed efforts.

Chicago Sun-Times

Anti-lynching bill named for murdered Chicago youth Emmett Till heads to President Biden to sign

The Emmett Till bill, championed by Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., makes lynching a federal hate crime.

The Independent UK

Mississippi county OKs contracts for Emmett Till statue

A Mississippi county has approved contracts for a sculptor to make and install a bronze statue of Emmett Till

Miami Herald

A decade after Trayvon Martin’s killing, ‘Being Black in America still comes at a great risk’

MIAMI — Sybrina Fulton is exhausted.

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Interior secretary tours civil rights sites in Mississippi

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland says she's honored to hear from people involved in civil rights in Mississippi

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