Summary: <p>Last week, the Senate passed federal anti-lynching legislation, called the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/55/text">Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act</a>, through unanimous consent. This comes after <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/03/08/1085094040/senate-passes-anti-lynching-bill-and-sends-federal-hate-crimes-legislation-to-bi">100 years and 200 failed attempts</a> in which anti-lynching measures were blocked by Congress. </p> <p>The Takeaway speaks with <a href="https://www.smith.edu/academics/faculty/paula-giddings">Paula Giddings</a>, professor emerita of Africana studies at Smith College and author of <em>Ida: A Sword Among Lions</em>, a biography of Ida B. Wells, about the work that journalist and anti-lynching advocate Ida B. Wells did to bring awareness to racial terror lynchings during her lifetime.</p>
