House passes anti-lynching bill that Rep. Bobby Rush says is decades overdue [washingtonpost.com]

Carey Sipp 3/1/224:00 AM

By Felicia Sonmez, Photo: J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press, The Washington Post, February 28, 2022

The House on Monday overwhelmingly approved legislation that would make lynching a federal hate crime, two years after a similar effort passed the chamber but was held up by Sen. Rand Paul.

H.R. 55, the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, was introduced by Rep. Bobby L. Rush (D-Ill.). It would amend the U.S. Code to designate lynching a hate crime punishable by up to 30 years in prison.

More than 4,000 people, mostly African Americans, were reported lynched in the United States from 1882 to 1968, in all but a handful of states. Ninety-nine percent of perpetrators escaped state or local punishment, according to Rush’s office.

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