“After thousands of murders of Black people, nearly 200 separate attempts to enact legislation, and more than 100 years since the first anti-lynching bill was introduced, the U.S. government is on the verge of finally acknowledging and addressing a historical fact has long been self-evident: the crime of lynching is a form of hate that the government must prosecute fully and with the full array of its powers."

...NAACP Legal Defense Fund