House passage of the Emmett Till law would launch investigations into civil rights era deaths

Emmett Till, a black teenager who was lynched in the 1950s for flirting with a white woman, is still inspiring action 61 years later. Congress is weighing reauthorizing the Emmett Till Unsolved Crimes Act, which would push the Justice Department and FBI to investigate civil rights-related deaths even if they’re decades old. The United States Senate…