Jena Six

- Jena Mayor Says His Words Were Twisted
- Audio Available at NPR.org

September 25, 2007, Washington, D.C. -- News & Notes with Farai Chideya elicits a response from Jena, LA, Mayor Murphy McMillan regarding his conversation with Richard Barrett, the general counsel for the Nationalist Movement in Learned, Miss.    » read more »

20 September 2007, Washington (By Ray McDonald) -- David Bowie has donated $10,000 to a legal defense fund for six African-American teens in the southern state of Louisiana. Known in the media as the "Jena Six," they are charged in an alleged attack on a white classmate in the small town of Jena.

The NAACP announced the British rock artist's donation to the Jena Six Legal Defense Fund as thousands of protestors prepared for a September 20 march on Jena.    » read more »

September 13, 2007, Chicago, IL -- Senator Barack Obama made the following statement today in response to the Jena 6 case.

"When nooses are being hung in high schools in the 21st century, it's a tragedy. It shows that we still have a lot of work to do as a nation to heal our racial tensions. This isn't just Jena's problem; it's America's problem."    » read more »

9/12/2007 -- Hillary Clinton:    » read more »