/tags/lynchings Lynchings en-US Copyright KUT News 2025 Wed, 30 Mar 2022 01:45:21 GMT /2022-03-29/lynching-is-now-a-federal-hate-crime-after-a-century-of-blocked-efforts President Biden signed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act into law, the culmination of more than a century of efforts to designate lynching as a federal hate crime. Wed, 30 Mar 2022 01:45:21 GMT /2022-03-29/lynching-is-now-a-federal-hate-crime-after-a-century-of-blocked-efforts Eric McDaniel, Elena Moore /politics/2019-12-16/sid-miller-faced-backlash-for-get-a-rope-facebook-post-greg-abbott-used-the-phrase-on-twitter A month ago, agriculture commissioner Sid Miller faced online backlash after tweeting the phrase “get a rope� � a statement critics said harkens back to� Mon, 16 Dec 2019 18:00:34 GMT /politics/2019-12-16/sid-miller-faced-backlash-for-get-a-rope-facebook-post-greg-abbott-used-the-phrase-on-twitter Chase Karacostas /crime-justice/2019-04-29/abilene-police-chief-apologizes-to-family-of-1922-lynching-victim A lynching that took place 97 years ago in Abilene, Texas, was publicly recognized for the first time Saturday, in part because of one college student's� Mon, 29 Apr 2019 18:22:56 GMT /crime-justice/2019-04-29/abilene-police-chief-apologizes-to-family-of-1922-lynching-victim Nathan Gibbs