The Jena Six case has underlined the way race and class bias continue to influence criminal justice in the United States. Long-haired celebrity civil rights attorney Tom Mesereau recently deconstructed the case to a full crowd at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles. For white Americans, he argued, the bias is easy [...]
Add Comment Add heartland rocker John Mellencamp to the headaches suffered this month by Mayor Murphy R. McMillin of embattled Jena, La. Mellencamp has taken on the Jena 6 story in his latest release, a contemporary “Southern Man” for his flatlander fans:
An all-white jury hides the executioner’s face
See how we are, me and you?
Everyone here needs to [...]
In what has become the latest Facebook fiasco, a group of college students recently joined forces to parody the Jena Six assault and then had the dramatization published on the social networking site. A freshman at the University of Louisiana at Monroe posted a photo album and a video showing her friends covered in mud, [...]
Mos and company have called a Jena Six walkout on campuses at noon central time across the country today. That’s now!
Read more about it… outside!
UPDATE: Mychal Bell was released on $45,000 bail this afternoon.
The Jena Six controversy continued today when a Louisiana prosecutor confirmed he would no longer seek an adult trial for Mychal Bell, a black teenager who once faced an attempted murder charge in the beating of a white classmate.
Bell has been in jail since December 2006, [...]
The Jena 6 are attracting attention all over the country. Thousands of people rallied in Jena, Louisiana, (pop: 3,000) this morning in support of the six African American students charged for beating up a white student last December. Read about it here.
And here in Los Angeles, crowds came out all over the city. One of [...]
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