That’s the headline on Yahoo! News.
The rally was originally planned for the sentencing of Mychal Bell. Though he’s not going to be sentenced today, folks still flocked to Jena to show their outrage of the injustice that occurred there.
The six were charged a few months after the local prosecutor declined to charge three white high [...]
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The conviction of Mychal Ball, one of the Jena Six, has been overturned.
JENA, Louisiana: A black teen’s conviction in a racial beating case has been overturned by an appeals court in Louisiana, which said the boy should not have been tried as an adult.
Mychal Bell was one of five black teens originally charged with attempted [...]
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I am helping spread the word in the blogosphere about the Jena Six. I’ve just read a post by Shanikka that turned my blood cold.
The beginning:
On August 31, 2006, a black student at Jena High School asked school administrators whether he could sit under the “white tree,” a shade tree on school grounds that [...]
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