Invoking a racially charged controversy, Sen. Barack Obama told a Harlem fundraiser Thursday that he deplored the fact that hanging nooses and “Jena Six” cases are still found in America.
Daily Archives: December 3, 2007
‘Jena 6′ teen agrees to plea deal
Mychal Bell, the 17-year-old black teenager whose arrest and detention led to the “Jena 6” protests, has agreed to a plea deal that could lead to his release by June, his lawyer said Monday. Bell was originally charged as an adult with attempted murder in an assault on a white fellow student, Justin Barker, at Jena High School in 2006.
Marian Wright Edelman: Let’s Put the “Justice” Back in Our Juvenile Justice
America’s juvenile justice system funnels low-income children of color into the Cradle to Prison Pipeline and unnecessary detention.