House approves lynching federal crime bill, sends to Senate
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65 years after 14-year-old African American Emmett Till was murdered in Mississippi by lynching, the House has passed a bill in his name to make lynching a federal crime. MSNBC’s Ali Velshi talks with Deborah Watts, a cousin of Till and the co-founder and president of the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation.Feb. 27, 2020
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