Latest Jena 6 Comment From A Mother Of 5

Mychal Bell has served enough time in jail for him and the other young men. Now they have come up with something else to have him behind bars.Why not give him time served? It's okay for them to charge him and the others young men as adults, but not okay for him to get time served for all of his crimes. The DA said he couldn't find charges to charges the boys who hung the nooses, well why not make up charges just like he did for the Jena Six. I'm not in no way shape or form excusing what happened,but if you're going to punish people punish everyone invlved and not make excuses why the Jena Six were accused and the white boys weren't. I'm just a concern parent of 5 beautiful children and in this day and age it's ridiculous to have this kind of stuff going on especially sinc so many peole have sacrifice their lives for this same fight hundreds of years ago. God Bless The Jena Six Keep praying and know that all of you are in a lot of people prays and through God All Things Are Possible.

Jena 6 Latest News Comes From The Senate In The Form Of A Resolution

U.S. Senate passes Jena 6 resolution

In the wake of the "Jena Six" case, the U.S. Senate on Thusday unanimously agreed to legislation requiring the hiring of at least three new community conciliators for the Louisiana region.

Passed was an amendment introduced by Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-New Orleans, to the Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations bill.

"The service waited too long to come to Jena," Landrieu said.

"By the time they set foot in Louisiana, attitudes had hardened and racial divisions had swelled," she said.

"The charges and counter-charges about the incidents in Jena LA. have torn apart a community and left many residents and frankly the whole world uneasy in Louisiana and across the nation. When a community is bitterly divided, the federal government has an obligation to get involved"

Jena 6 High School Burnt Down Just The Latest News In A Town Called Jena

In a town that has stayed in the headlines it seems they'll be there for a while longer.The latest jena 6 headlines it seems that someone decided to burn the jena 6 highschool down.The pictures are of A fireman as he looks at a crack on the back wall of Jena High School. The crack means the building has been damaged structurally and will soon collapse.

Latest Jena 6 News David Banner Takes His Cause To The Radio

The hip-hop community has been more vocal about the Jena Six case, from its stars to its blogs, which have posted frequent updates about the teens’ fate.

The always outspoken Mississippi rapper David Banner wasn’t at last month’s protest —instead, he went on a radio tour to promote his album so he could let listeners know about the case.



If you wondered why he said “I thought it would have been more powerful for me to get on the radio and talk about it, and drive people there and let people know what’s going on than actually being there,” said Banner. “We wanna be there to show face, but if you’re actually more powerful at the capacity that you are, then you should do what you do.”

Banner says he became involved because “it’s so close to home.

“No. 2, there’s a Jena Six that goes on in Mississippi every month — or every two months,” he continued. “See that’s the thing. America has a tendency to try to make things — single out things — as if this is a one-time occurrence. ... We have to stop acting like stuff don’t exist.”

Falcons Want There Money Back Vick Lawyers In Court For State Charges

The Atlanta Falcons wants a refund on the $22 million in bonus money paid to quarterback Michael Vick.

"I don't expect it will go beyond a day," said University of Pennsylvania law professor Stephen B. Burbank, the special master who will serve as arbitrator of the hearing at the law school.


Attorneys representing the NFL Players Association will argue against the Falcons' claim.

The team is expected to contend that Vick knew he was in violation of the contract when he signed the $130 million deal in December 2004, and that he used proceeds from the deal to fund his dogfighting operation.

"I think clearly it's a reach on the part of the Falcons," said Jerry Reisman, a contract and business attorney based in Garden City, N.Y. "I think Vick earned that money. He received the roster bonus given out if you are on a roster at any point. He was on the roster in 2004 and earned the money."

Under the NFL's collective bargaining agreement, bonus money earned cannot be returned.

Also Wednesday, Vick's attorney appeared in Surry County (Va.) Circuit Court and was asked to return Nov. 27 to set a trial date on state charges. The attorney, Larry Woodward, told the judge he would be in touch with the prosecutor. It's possible Vick might agree to a plea deal or his attorneys could file a motion to toss the charges.

Jena 6 News And Latest Facts The Mother Of Mychal Speeks

After nine months behind bars, the 17-year-old Mychal Bell,was released on bail last week. Essence.com caught up with Melissa Bell to learn how her son is coping, what they both have taken from this experience and why their battle is far from over. Read The Whole Interview Here

Mychal Bell Goes To Court And No One Shows Up

JENA, La. — No media and no supporters greeted Mychal Bell this time as Mychal heads into court on Tuesday.

There were no details of why Bell was in court since his case now is being handled in juvenile court and is not open to the public.

"I can't tell you about what just happened or what is next," said Louis Scott, one of Bell's attorneys, as he left the building. We will keep you up to
date with the latest on the case.

Exclusive Photos The Jena 6 Latest News

A group of white Louisiana college students dressed in blackface and reenacted the "Jena 6" assault while a friend snapped photos the staged attack, images that were later posted to one of the participant's Facebook page. The photos, which you'll find here ,were taken late last month on the bank of the Ouachita River, where students from the University of Louisiana at Monroe giddily acted out the racial attack. The photos were posted to the Facebook page of Kristy Smith, a freshman nursing student. The album of images was entitled "The Jena 6 on the River." ,three students with mud smeared across their bodies stomp on a fourth student, while two of the participants are heard to say, "Jena 6." One man can also be heard saying, "Niggers put the noose on." After the video and photos on Smith's page were discovered by fellow students, she removed the material and made her Facebook page private. Smith, who did not respond to a e-mail sent to her school address, apologized for the images in several recent Facebook postings. "We were just playin n the mud and it got out of hand. I promise i'm not racist. i have just as many black friends as i do white. And i love them to death," she wrote.

Heres A Scarry Reality Theres A Morgue Trailer AwaitIng The Next Hurricane

Morgue's new trailer awaits next hurricane



HOUMA, La. -- At Bayou Terrebonne and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, a long, white trailer overlooks the downtown Houma marina.

The trailer has been empty nearly two years, but the flip of a switch from a morgue employee can have it roaring to life, its refrigerator dropping the temperature inside in preparation for a new spate of bodies.

Bought by the Federal Emergency Management Agency during 2005's hurricanes, the trailer stored the overflow of bodies from nursing homes in parishes stricken more severely than Terrebonne, said Greg Whitney, an investigator for the parish Coroner's Office.

FEMA gave 200 of its distinctive blue body bags to the parish. The bags are stripped down for emergency use - no handles, for example - but are still high quality, Whitney said.

When the state set up its temporary morgue in St. Gabriel, it used trailers similar to the one that remains in Terrebonne for storage. Since the crisis passed, however, Terrebonne's morgue trailer has not been used. Though it's the same model used by any company that ships refrigerated goods, no one else wants it, Whitney said, for a simple reason: It had bodies in it.

Now, the onsite trailer is kept as a precaution. In the wake of a deadly 2005 storm season, and in the midst of another one that has already produced two Category 5 storms, officials are hanging on to it, just in case.

A morgue trailer may conjure images in the CSI-trained mind of gleaming surfaces and precision instruments, but Terrebonne's offers no such glamour. It's a large, completely empty box that can get quite cold.

"It's as plain as plain can get," Whitney said.

The trailer's main asset is its size. The Terrebonne Parish Morgue has space for 10 bodies, and only eight at present, because of problems with two units - and that's the biggest game in town. The Lafourche morgue can hold three, Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center can hold two, and no one else - not even hospitals or funeral homes - has any storage at all, Whitney said.

By contrast, the 47-foot trailer can hold an estimated 60 to 80 bodies, if needed, Whitney said.

"We start looking around, where can we put the bodies?," Whitney said. "If it's natural deaths or whatever, you have to have some sort of contingency plan."

It also has another design asset - stainless steel floors, which are remarkably easy to clean. The large refrigerator unit up front can easily bring the temperature inside to 50 degrees or lower.

"The cooling unit brings it down enough, so that the bodies don't undergo any more deterioration," Whitney said. The body bags also help hold in the cool air. "The trick is to make sure the body doesn't start decaying."

The trailer wound up on waterfront property when the parish asked the Coroner's Office to move it off the parish yard for space reasons. The morgue was a decent choice because employees stop by regularly to make sure its cooling unit is in good working order. Plus, investigators are often called out at night, so they have ready access to the trailer if they need it.

People often ask what the trailer is for, Whitney said. The back doors, he said, are firmly locked if bodies are present.

"You get some weird people in this world," Whitney said.

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Rev Moran Representing The jena Six Families On DR Phil

'Get the word out'
Rev Moran on Tuesday afternoon was in a Texas airport awaiting a flight to Los Angeles for a filming of the "Dr. Phil" TV talk show, for which the Barker family also was expected to appear. None of the families or defendants were able to go, so Moran said he was appearing as a representative of the family.

"More or less, this is the first time we have been able to be together," he said of himself and the Barkers. "Hopefully, it will do a lot of good. We can put our differences on the table and (Phil McGraw) can show us how to diminish them."

Two of the defendants were scheduled to be among a panel Tuesday night at the national "Cradle to Prison Pipeline Summit" at Howard University, according to a news release from the school.

But Robert Bailey Jr. and Theo Shaw were unable to join the panel discussion on "Endangered Black Males: Racial Injustice and the Pipeline," as originally planned, Bailey's attorney, Jim Boren, said Tuesday afternoon. They didn't find out about the event until last week, and a motion to see if the boys could leave the state wasn't heard in time for them to leave, Boren said.

Boren confirmed the threats against Bailey and his mother, Caseptla Bailey, the once outspoken president of the LaSalle Parish chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. They've received several calls threatening their lives and take them seriously, Boren said.

And even though Boren receives 10 calls a day "from Oprah to NBC" asking for a statement from Robert Bailey, he said his client is going to refrain from any appearances.

"His previous lawyers thought it would be OK to talk to the media," Boren said. "But he has not since I've been involved in the case and won't."

Jones and Melissa Bell, Mychal Bell's mother, appeared earlier this week on "Larry King Live" on CNN. Now they are in Washington, D.C., with the Rev. Al Sharpton.

On Tuesday, the group met with U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, to seek federal hearings and a federal intervention in not only their son's case but the threats all of the families have been receiving, a Sharpton spokeswoman said.

Tina Jones, the mother of Purvis, is also in Washington for meetings, Moran said.

"The families are staying busy with meetings trying to get the word out, figure out what the next step is," Moran said.