US Senate unanimously passes bill to make lynching a federal hate crime

An earlier version of the bill, which was blocked in the Senate, was passed by the House in the aftermath of George Floyd's murder

The US Senate has unanimously passed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, a bill to make lynching a federal hate crime. Such efforts had failed for more than a century.

Bobby Rush, the Illinois Democrat who introduced the measure in the House, said: Despite more than 200 attempts to outlaw this heinous form of racial terror at the federal level, it has never before been done. Today, we corrected that historic injustice. Next stop: [Joe Biden's] desk."