On March 29, President Joe Biden signed a bill to make lynching a federal crime. Devised by a group of Black lawmakers in the House and Senate Tim Scott of South Carolina, Cory Booker of New Jersey, Bobby Rush of Illinois and Kamala Harris of California (when she was still in the Senate) the law comes into being after more than 200 failed attempts, over more than 100 years, to pass anti-lynching legislation through Congress.
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