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Recent Posts Tagged With 'jena'

• Jena, Take Your Nooses Down

  Posted on Monday October 8th, 2007 at 14:38 in jena, jena 6, John Mellencamp, racism

  I've seen blog posts about John Mellencamp's powerful song about Jena, Louisiana and the Jena mayor's unhappiness about it. Now that I've seen the video, I can understand why the mayor would be upset....

• Day of Blogging for Justice: Free the Jena 6!

  Posted on Thursday August 30th, 2007 at 05:47 in american shame, free the jena six, gov. blanco, Hurricane Katrina, injustice, jena, justice, louisiana, racism, white tree

  Most of this post is from one of my entries a couple of weeks ago I am re-posting it today as August 30th has been established as a Day of Blogging for Justice to focus attention on the disparate, sha...

• The Jena Six: An American Tragedy and a Shameful Reality

  Posted on Tuesday August 14th, 2007 at 06:34 in american shame, free the jena six, gov. blanco, Hurricane Katrina, injustice, jena, justice, louisiana, racism, white tree

  Six black students from Jena, Louisiana have been incarcerated since December of last year because of a protest and violence that ensued as a result of one black student sitting under the "white tree"...