Democratic Sens. Cory Booker and Kamala Harris gained Senate support to pass bipartisan anti-lynching legislation that will criminalize lynching in America for the first time.
In December 2018, the motion to approve the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act, which was introduced by Booker, Harris and Republican Sen. Tim Scott, was passed unopposed. The act also has the support of NAACP, the Anti-Defamation League and the Equal Justice Initiative.
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According to the NAACP, from 1882-1968, 4,743 lynchings occurred in the United States, 3,446 of those people being Black and accounting for nearly 73 percent of the American population. This legislation would ensure that the history of America’s past is criminalized during the present-day.
Source: Senators Cory Booker And Kamala Harris Make Black History With Anti-Lynching Bill
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