juvenile justice
October 3, 2007 -
Indiana rocker John Mellencamp has been in the studio working with producer T Bone Burnett on a new album.
October 3, 2007 -
by Xochitl Bervera
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 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 22, 2007 -
With Jena on the media radar, NPR did a story this week about the larger issue of re-segregation of U.S. schools.
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.