JENA, La. — Five members of the Jena Six pleaded no contest Friday to misdemeanor simple battery and won't serve jail time, ending a case that t...
AP | KEVIN McGILL | Posted 12.30.2008 | Politics
NEW ORLEANS — One of the central figures in the 2007 Jena Six civil rights case never gave up pursuing his football career, even after his well-...
James Rucker | Posted 12.17.2008 | Politics
We may be on the brink of inaugurating a black president, but the miscarriage of justice unfolding in Louisiana with the case of the Angola 3 tells a different story about race, power and accountability.
Terrance Heath | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics
I don't remember how old I was the first time it happened. I couldn't have been more than ten years old. We were in Philadelphia -- my mother, my youn...
Jeff Chang | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics
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.
Eric Deggans | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics
The continuing battle over issues like the words of Rev. Jeremiah Wright suggests to me that our soundbite-focused media culture isn't well suited to the serious, complex debate we need to have on race in America.
Time | Mary Foster | Posted 01.22.2008 | Politics
About 50 white separatists protested the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday Monday in this tiny town, which was thrust into the spotlight months ago by 20...
Joe Vogel | Posted 01.21.2008 | Politics
Senior citizens, who make up a significant and reliable percentage of the voting bloc, are having a difficult time voting for a black man.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 11.21.2007 | Politics
He is a slap in the face to the legions that duck, dodge, deflect, and flat out deny that there's still a lot of racial hurt inflicted on blacks.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 11.15.2007 | Politics
Civil rights leaders pound Bush for not pushing Justice Dept. to bump up the number of hate crime prosecutions. But Bush is hardly the only president that didn't make it a priority.
Anne M. Plant | Posted 11.14.2007 | Living
Veteran's Day is about serving something larger than yourself, larger than your own life because that is what you risk when you take the solemn oath. There is always the risk of war- just or unjust- the soldier doesn't get a choice.
Trey Ellis | Posted 10.26.2007 | Politics
Georgia's attorney general, even in defeat, still hides behind a rigid and robotic interpretation of the law, still failing to understand that in his literalist interpretation, justice was not served.
Christian Science Monitor | Craig Franklin | Posted 10.24.2007 | Media
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 p...
USA Today | Posted 10.10.2007 | Politics
On the campus of the University of Maryland, where a third of the students are minorities, a noose is found hanging from a tree in front of a building...
Anne M. Plant | Posted 10.09.2007 | Living
My eight-year-old felt a great injustice was being dealt those African American boys. She made an unassigned current event presentation about it for class.
Smoking Gun | Posted 10.03.2007 | Media
A group of white Louisiana college students dressed in blackface and reenacted the "Jena 6" assault while a friend snapped photos and videotaped the s...
Howie Klein | Posted 10.02.2007 | Entertainment
In August he recorded the song "Jena," as soon as he heard what was going on in that small town. He wanted to get it out even before the album was released.
Rachel Sklar | Posted 09.27.2007 | Media
Last night the PBS Black Voter Forum was proud to welcome half the GOP presidential candidates. There are funds to be raised, people, let's get our priorities straight.
Associated Press | DOUG SIMPSON | Posted 09.27.2007 | Home
A prosecutor confirmed Thursday that he will no longer seek an adult trial for a black teenager he once charged with attempted murder in the beating ...
Carolyn Castiglia | Posted 09.27.2007 | Politics
A punishment should always fit the crime, and the charge of attempted murder fits the Jena 6 the way a dress from Lane Bryant would fit Kate Moss.
Francis L. Holland | Posted 09.26.2007 | Politics
The word "race" is the linguistic clothing of slavery, but we are Blacks are still wearing it centuries after it was forced upon us by our slavemasters.
Michael Fauntroy | Posted 09.26.2007 | Politics
Major Black Republicans who believe it's wrong for candidates to miss the forum at Morgan State should form an ad hoc coalition to express their outrage.
Chicago Tribune | Howard Witt | Posted 09.24.2007 | Home
No sooner did tens of thousands of African-American demonstrators depart the racially tense town of Jena, La., last week after protesting perceived in...
Al Eisele | Posted 09.24.2007 | Politics
This is the story of two trees that can serve as symbols of the best and worst in American life.
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