hate crimes

July 28, 2008 - A man with a shotgun entered a church Sunday and opened fire on congregants during a children's play at Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville, Tenn.

September 28, 2007 - Mychal Bell was released from prison today on $45,000 bail after the district attorney said he would no longer seek an adult trial for the youth, who was 16 years old when he was charged as an adult with attempted second-degree murder in the beating of a fellow high school student following escalating racial tensions in the town of Jena, La.

September 24, 2007 - The National Lawyers Guild -- the nation's first racially integrated bar association -- today called for the immediate release of Mychal Bell, one of the six black Louisiana high school students who have come to be known as the "Jena 6." The Guild also called fo

September 21, 2007 - Yesterday, thousands of marchers descended on Jena, Louisiana to support the "Jena 6." Despite being ignored for months by the mainstream media, the case has become a defining racial justice and civil rights struggle of our time.

September 20, 2007 - Today, thousands have gathered in Jena, Louisiana to support the "Jena 6" -- African-American youths facing decades of jail time for a schoolyard fight.

September 5, 2007 - We have reported here

August 10, 2007 - Facing South was one of the first media outlets to cover the case of the Jena 6 -- black youths in rural Louisiana who are facing up to 22