As protests rock cities, Rand Paul holds up passage of anti-lynching bill
This is part of an occasional series of Yahoo News articles and accompanying videos on how the issues America faced in the 1920s — aka “the roaring twenties” — have echoes in our own decade, a century later. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is holding up the passage of an anti-lynching bill with broad bipartisan support — the latest delay in an effort to pass a federal law against lynching that goes back over a century. 410-4 on Feb. 26, lawmakers expected it to pass in the Senate and head to President Trump’s desk within days. A Senate version, the ...
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