Senators Vote To Ban Noose

The Senate yesterday rewrote a hate crimes bill to restrict the public display of the noose. The amendment came on a personal appeal by Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard (N.S.) who recounted her own experience with anti-Black bigotry: “They yell profanities at you and tell you to go back to Africa.”

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