House will vote to classify lynching as federal hate crime

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The House will vote on a bill that would make lynching a federal hate crime.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, a Democrat from Maryland, announced on Thursday that the lower chamber will take action on H.R. 35, which has been named the “Emmett Till Antilynching Act” after a black 14-year-old who was lynched in 1955, next week.

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