 "Call and Post (Cleveland)")
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March on Jena: Court bends as outrage grows
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Call and Post (Cleveland)
09-19-2007
An estimated 20,000 people will head to Jena, La., this week to protest ... what, exactly? The rally is planned for Sept. 20, the date on which Mychal Bell had been scheduled to be sentenced for attempted second-degree battery.
The 17-year-old high school football star, who a year ago was being eyed as a top prospect for Division I scholarships, has been in jail since December for answering a classmate's racial taunts with a...
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A Town In Turmoil; As the new school year approaches, Jena, La., is struggling to move beyond the racial strife that ripped it apart and left the futures of six students in disarray.
Newsweek
; ... the racial strain more than Marci and Chris Johnson, one of Jena's few interracial couples. When Marci, who is white, broke the news to a friend that she was dating a black man, the woman warned her that Marci would be ostracized. It was true, she says. I don ...
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 "The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)")
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THOUSANDS PROTEST IN JENA, LA.(News)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
; Byline: Jenny Jarvie and Richard Fausset, Los Angeles Times JENA, La. -- In a scene reminiscent of civil rights protests of decades past, thousands of protesters descended on this small Southern town Thursday to decry peacefully what they said was the unfair treatment of six black teenagers charged
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Local students protest for their peers in Jena, Louisiana
Chicago Defender
; A young, West Side activisr is on a mission to ensure that Chicagoans are on board with protesting the racial injustice that has plagued several teens in a town almost 900 miles south of the city. In September 2006, Black students at Jena High School in Jena, La. asked school officials for
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Media myths about the Jena 6.(OPINION)(6 African American attackers)
The Christian Science Monitor
; Byline: Craig Franklin Jena, La. -- By now, almost everyone in America has heard of Jena, La., because they've all heard the story of the Jena 6. White students hanging nooses barely punished, a schoolyard fight, excessive punishment for the six black attackers, racist local officials, public
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N. Texans marching behind 6 young men in Jena.
Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
; ... breaking a long public silence Wednesday at a news conference, denied that racism was involved ... are in dispute. According to published news reports, here's how things unfolded ... Newspapers To see more of The Dallas Morning News, or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to ...
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Reflecting on the 'Jena Six' mess
Daily Breeze
; CNN devoted an entire hour to the chaos in Jena, La., and rendered a considerable service. We hear, running through it all, the voices of critical figures - the district attorney, the school principal and a school board member, the mothers of the defendants and of the victim, the outsiders. The
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Long memories in Jena
The Boston Globe
; EDITORIAL NOTEBOOK ON PAPER, at least, Jena is typical of many smaller towns in rural Louisiana, a state where I spent more than a decade. The population of the town has barely grown in half a century. Economic growth has been slower than in boom states elsewhere in the South. And even though black
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Jena, La. + 6 Black boys x racism = 100 years in prison...maybe
New Pittsburgh Courier
; Commentary The Jena 6 are not model students, but they are victims. The United States' racist system of justice was preparing to devour six more Black boys last week in Jena, La. until Black folks decided to flex our collective muscle. The circumstances surrounding the Jena 6 tell more than a story
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 "Seattle Times (Seattle, WA)")
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Look past symbols of Jena.
Seattle Times (Seattle, WA)
; Byline: Jerry Large SEATTLE _ A week ago, folks were marching in Jena, La., using symbolism to attack the hard reality of racism. Marchers were calling for justice for the Jena Six, black high-school students accused of beating a white student. The six are hardly heroes and they certainly deserve
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 "Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)")
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'This is much bigger than Jena': Rallies on Baltimore campuses demand justice for 6 black students in La.
Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
; Byline: Kelly Brewington Sun Reporter Sep. 21--Chanting civil rights slogans and swaying to We Shall Overcome, hundreds clad in black gathered on the campuses of Morgan State and Coppin State universities yesterday calling for justice for the Jena 6. They were college students, university
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