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Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
According to DiversityInc, the number of reported noose incidents has increased exponentially since the Jena 6 affair: Since September of last year, the number of reported noose incidents nationally jumped to nearly 80, according to the DiversityInc Noose Watch , the first and only tracker of national reported noose sightings.... "We might see half a dozen [noose] cases a year; there is no doubt in...
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BlackPoliticsontheWeb.com (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Brian Charlton, Associated Press - The flashpoints are familiar, even worn out: Was race a factor in the prosecution of the black teenagers dubbed the “Jena 6″ and charged with beating a white teen? Should The New Yorker magazine have satirized stereotypes of race on its cover? Aside from the flashpoints, however, Janice Ellis mostly hears [...]
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Black Voices Blogs (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Filed under: BlackSpin Black Voices Blogs : This is one that needs to be pumped up and put in the mainstream like the Jena 6. It is hard to believe that a black community in Zanesville, Ohio, have been denied access to public water, but that is what a U.S. District Court ruled recently,... Read more
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PREA Prez (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
(Note: I normally would place a graphic here. WordPress has denied me the right to upload any graphic files. I have made an inquiry as to why. I am waiting to hear back.) The Jena 6 were a group of black high school students in Jena, Louisiana who were charged with the beating of Justin Baker, [...]
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DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
Skip It It certainly took its time reaching national headlines---but if today's celebrity-fueled media should remind us, the most important stories are rarely front and center. The event in question, of course, is the chaos stemming from a racially-charged incident during late summer 2006 in Jena, Louisiana, where nooses were hanged at a school (from the tree seen above, which was later cut down),...
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Black Voices Blogs (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
Filed under: BlackSpin , Jena Six Black Voices Blogs : A new magazine about race and ethnicity issues launched this week and the magazine's creator says the Jena Six case inspired her to create the publication. RiseUp, based in Kansas City, Mo., is expected to reach 4.3 million people, getting inserted... Read more
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Jack and Jill Politics (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
Yobachi's got all the facts at The Jena Six Blog . The NAACP has finally released a report on their Jena 6 activities and fundraising . As a member, I'm disgusted. Color of Change raised $200,000, mostly from individual donors, and gave 90% of the funds to the lawyers representing the Jena 6 families and to the families themselves. That's quite a contrast. I'm an NAACP member and I'm offended by the...
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Upset The Setup (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
Damn, Wednesday was our second best day ever. Mad hits. Only topped by that day before the Jena 6 rally when I was posting the logistics everyone was looking for. Oh. Can one of yall leave a comment? What do I have to give away more shirts? UPSET THE SETUP. NO FANCY GETUPS [...]
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Can't Stop Won't Stop (Free subscription) | 06/01/2008
From the Chicago Tribune : Lawyers for the five remaining defendants facing trial in the racially divisive Jena 6 incident in Louisiana presented evidence Friday of what they said was bias on the part of the judge presiding over the cases and sought his removal. After four hours of testimony, a visiting judge appointed by the Louisiana Supreme Court to hear the recusal motion against LaSalle Parish...
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 05/31/2008
HOUSTON | Attorneys for the five remaining defendants facing trial in the racially divisive Jena 6 incident in Louisiana presented evidence Friday of what they said was bias on the part of the judge presiding over the cases and sought his removal.
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BlackPoliticsontheWeb.com (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
Citing powerful evidence of Judge J.P. Mauffray Jr.’s bias against them, five of the African-American youth known as the Jena 6 are back in court Friday, May 30 seeking to remove Mauffray from their cases. Legal documents filed in the proceedings reveal Judge Mauffray’s personal vendetta against the Jena 6. Among other incidents, [...]
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Black Voices Blogs (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
Filed under: BlackSpin , Jena Six Black Voices Blogs : Seven months ago, tens of thousands of kinfolk converged on Jena, La., in support of six black teenagers who were charged with second degree murder for a school fight that should have been handled by the school system.For months, black talk radio... Read more
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Feministing (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
My friend and colleague and (hero and rockstar writer) Jeff Chang spreads the word on the fate of the Jena 6 and the case that is being mishandled and more so as the mainstream media fails to pick it up. There have been new developments and we must get the word out. This Friday, special judge Thomas Yeager will consider a motion made on behalf of the Jena 6 to remove Judge J.P. Mauffray from their...
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Facing South (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
It's been eight months since over 40,000 demonstrators descended on the small town of Jena, Louisiana to protest the case of the Jena 6 . But the six African-American youth who were originally charged with second-degree murder in the infamous schoolyard brawl still face legal challenges, as Jeff Chang reports in Vibe : This Friday, special judge Thomas Yeager will consider a motion made on behalf of...
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Can't Stop Won't Stop (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008
Eight months after 40,000 people converged on Jena, Louisiana, justice still awaits the six young men whose cases inspired one of the biggest civil rights marches in recent history. This Friday, special judge Thomas Yeager will consider a motion made on behalf of the Jena 6 to remove Judge J.P. Mauffray from their cases. Mauffray had previously denied motions by 5 of the defendants to recuse him from...
