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What Is The Jena 6

A little background for those that do not know, the Jena 6 are six Black students who face the possibility of going to prison for very long time, all because of a schoolyard fight. Almost a year ago, in the small town of Jena, Louisiana a group of Black students sat under a “whites-only” tree in the schoolyard. Yes they still have them.

Apparently, this upset some of the white students so much that the next day they put up nooses hanging from the tree. Soon after the nooses were hung, most of the 93 Black students (out of a total student enrollment of 546) at Jena High School stood together under the tree, in a courageous act of protest.

It wasn't long after this that a a school assembly was called, where a white district attorney told the Black students to just keep their mouths shut about the nooses. He told them if he heard anything else about it, he “can make their lives go away with the stroke of his pen.”

This eventually led to a fight that sent one white student to the hospital and six Black students to jail and that’s when all the comotion and eventual hell broke loose.

The Jena 6 are Robert Bailey (17), Theo Shaw (17), Carwin Jones (18), Bryant Purvis (17), Mychal Bell (16) and an unidentified minor. All were expelled from school, arrested and charged with second-degree attempted murder. Bail was set so high starting at $70,000 and going as high as$138,000 that the they were left in prison for months as families went deep into debt to release them.

Here at Jena-6 .blogspot we will devote this entire site to the Jena 6 story. It is said to be covered by Oprah soon, only time will tell. We will keep you up to date on that as well.

Friday, September 14, 2007

Jena Six News The latest News And Updates For The Jena 6 Case

Louisiana UUs decry racism in 'Jena Six' case
“We've had people released from jail without ever having seen an attorney.”

Carwin Jones, center, one of the "Jena Six," is flanked by his mother, Tina Jones, left, and his father John Jenkins, in front of the LaSalle Parish Courthouse in June.

Two Unitarian Universalist churches in Louisiana are rallying to the cause of the “Jena Six,” the teenaged defendants in a criminal case that has drawn national attention to racial tensions in their small town. Both churches adopted resolutions expressing concern about racism, are joining interfaith prayer services and candlelight vigils, and plan to attend a mass demonstration later this month.

The Jena Six are African American young men—four 17-year-olds, one 18-year-old, and one minor—who were arrested and charged with attempted murder after a high school fight with a white classmate in Jena, Louisiana, in December. Civil rights group have called the charges against the young men excessive and say officials failed to respond adequately to racist incidents at the high school that may have led to the fight.Read the whole story