Emmett Till should have turned 79 today. But he was just 14 years old when he was brutally murdered.
Racism is still alive and well today yet just last month one Republican Senator blocked our bill to make lynching a federal crime. We still have a long way to go as a nation.
The “gay/trans panic” defense has been used to justify horrific acts of violence against the LGBTQ+ community. As San Francisco’s DA and California’s AG, I helped make ours the first state to ban it. This #PrideMonth, let’s commit to banning this reprehensible defense nationwide.
Today the University of Oregon Board of Trustees voted unanimously to dename Deady Hall. The building will temporarily be called University Hall until the completion of a more formal naming process over the coming school year.