Congress finally outlaws lynching – 65 years after murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till
The federal government reopened its investigation into the brutal slaying of black teenager Emmett Till in 2018, 63 years after the black teenager’s death in Mississippi. The Justice Department told Congress in a report that March it is reinvestigating Till’s slaying in Money, Mississippi, in 1955 after receiving ‘new information’. Till’s accuser Carolyn Bryant, pictured … Read more