Race and Civil Rights

February 19, 2008 - Human rights activists from the United States are gathering in the Swiss city of Geneva this week to hold the government to account for violations of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

January 22, 2008 - Supporters of presidential candidate Ron Paul, the libertarian-leaning Congressman from Texas who recently finished second in the Nevada Republican caucuses, used the occasion of yesterday's Martin Luther King Jr. holiday for another fundraising extravaganza, collecting $1.85 million for the campaign.

January 19, 2008 - The Nationalist Movement -- a white-supremacist group based in Learned, Miss. that bills itself as "pro-majority" -- plans to march on Jena, La. on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to protest the holiday and the Jena 6.

January 10, 2008 - The Kentucky case that has executions on hold around the South and the rest of the nation is being heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.

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 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.