Black US 🇺🇸 Senators Introduce Anti-Lynching Bill

The three black United States senators have introduced a bill that would make lynching a federal hate crime. The bill would allow lynching to be added as a hate crime charge alongside existing crimes such as murder.


More than 200 anti-lynching bills have been introduced to Congress since 1918 only to be voted down, noted the bill's lead sponsor, Democrat Kamala Harris.

"Lynching is a dark, despicable part of our history, and we must acknowledge that, lest we repeat it," she said.

If passed, the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act would make lynching punishable by a sentence of up to life in prison.

Lynching is murder by a mob with no due process or rule of law. In the US south in the 19th and 20th centuries, thousands of African Americans were lynched by white mobs, often by hanging.