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Biden hosts screening of film about lynching of Emmett Till

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the Chinese surveillance balloon and other unidentified objects shot down by the U.S. military, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

FILE - This 1955 file photo shows Carolyn Bryant. A relative of Emmett Till filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, to compel the current Leflore County sheriff, Ricky Banks, to serve an arrest warrant on Bryant in the kidnapping that led to the brutal 1955 lynching of the Emmett Louis Till, a Black teenager, in the Mississippi Delta. She has since remarried and is named Carolyn Bryant Donham. (AP Photo/Gene Herrick, File)

FILE - This undated photo shows Emmett Louis Till, who was kidnapped, tortured and killed in the Mississippi Delta in August 1955 after witnesses claimed he whistled at a white woman working in a store. Till's cousin, Patricia Sterling, filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, to compel the current Leflore County sheriff, Ricky Banks, to serve an arrest warrant on Carolyn Bryant in the kidnapping that led to the brutal lynching of Till, a Black teenager. She has since remarried and is named Carolyn Bryant Donham. (AP Photo/File)

Biden hosts screening of film about lynching of Emmett Till