As you all know, today has been dubbed ‘Black Thursday’ in support of The Jena 6. We are asking all the readers who are repping black to send in their photos for this special post. As you can see, Bun B is a reader of CL and he sent in the exclusive photo above. Shout out to him and Mos Def for holding it down in Jena!
We are adding new photos left and right so keep checking back to see new ones.
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A Louisiana judge tossed the conviction against teen tried as adult in the Jena 6 case. CNN REPORTS:
Bob Noel said the 3rd District Court of Appeals in Lake Charles threw out the conviction for second degree battery against Mychal Bell, saying the charges should have been brought in juvenile court. “We’re happy now, but tomorrow is another day,” Noel told reporters.
The future of the case against Bell is up to the district attorney, who must decide whether to refile the charges in juvenile court, Noel said.”We have to wait and see what the other side’s going to do, how they’re going to react,” he said.
Bell’s defense team would be filing a motion to get him out of prison, where he has been since his arrest in December, Noel said.
“The primary concern is to get Mychal Bell out of jail and into school where he needs to be,” he said. [ READ MORE ]
Bell was facing up to 15 years in prison for nothing but a school yard fight.
IN RELATED NEWS:Michael Baisden, The Color of Change, and major civil rights leaders had been planning a rally on September 20th in support of the teens and word is the rally will still take place.
The Jena 6 movement has been picking up a good following for the past couple of months and we came across this great song that is bringing a whole new light to this blatant act of racism.
Meet Jasiri X. He, like thousands of others, was enraged when he learned about the Jena 6 case, so he wrote this song to help spread the word on this issue. Make sure you give it a listen and go show him some love for this great track.
IN RELATED NEWS: The rally in support for Mychal Bell is still going down on September 20th, but if you cannot attend, officials are asking you to wear black on that date for support. Click here for more info on the upcoming rally.
The Jena Six are a group of black students who are being charged with attempted murder for beating up a white student who was taunting them with racial slurs. A series of white-on-black incidents of violence happened before the final incident took place, but the black students are taking all the blame.
On September 20th Mychal Bell, one of the black teenagers awaiting sentencing in the Jena 6 Case will be appearing before a judge in a Louisiana court house. Bell could receive up to 22 years in prison for what amounted to nothing more then a fist fight between black and white high school students.
Michael will need all the support he can, so please check out the links below for more information.
Last fall in Jena, Louisiana, the day after two Black high school students sat beneath the “white tree” on their campus, nooses were hung from the tree. When the superintendent dismissed the nooses as a “prank,” more Black students sat under the tree in protest. The District Attorney then came to the school accompanied by the town’s police and demanded that the students end their protest, telling them, “I can be your best friend or your worst enemy… I can take away your lives with a stroke of my pen.”
A series of white-on-black incidents of violence followed, and the DA did nothing. But when a white student was beaten up in a schoolyard fight, the DA responded by charging six black students with attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
It’s a story that reads like one from the Jim Crow era, when judges, lawyers and all-white juries used the justice system to keep blacks in “their place.” But it’s happening today. The families of these young men are fighting back, but the story has gotten minimal press. Together, we can make sure their story is told and that the Governor of Louisiana intervenes and provides justice for the Jena 6.
