Aug 1st, 2008 · The judge overseeing the criminal cases for the remaining Jena Six defendants was removed against his will Friday for making questionable remarks about the six black teenagers charged in an attack on a white high-school classmate in the central Louisiana town of Jena.
Jan 5th, 2008 · Two of the biggest racial controversies of the last decade, Tulia, Texas, and Jena, Louisiana, have one thing in common: Alan Bean. He's a mild mannered 54-year-old former Baptist minister who is white.
Dec 28th, 2007 · Last summer in Jena, Louisiana, six black teenagers were arrested for beating up a white teenager. The fight happened after white students hung a noose in a tree on school grounds. Alex Cohen gets an update from NPR's Wade Goodwyn.
Dec 5th, 2007 · Mychal Bell, one of the "Jena Six," has accepted a plea bargain as one of six black teenage boys accused of beating a white classmate after a series of racially motivated incidents in Louisiana. Chicago Tribune reporter Howard Witt and Louis Scott, attorney for Bell, explain details of the plea.
Sep 21st, 2007 · Student Justin Barker was beaten up by six black youths in Jena, La., last year. Now his father David talks about his son, the Jena Six case and race relations in the rural Louisiana town.
Sep 21st, 2007 · Civil rights protesters argue Jena, La., school and law enforcement officials are dealing out harsh justice to the African-American teens for a schoolyard fight while overlooking their white counterparts who hung nooses to intimidate the black teens.
Sep 20th, 2007 · The streets of Jena, La., overflow with demonstrators rallying around the "Jena Six." Six black teens in the town face criminal charges for their role in the beating of a white student at the local high school last December.
Sep 20th, 2007 · State and local officials in Jena, La., are preparing for a march by thousands of civil rights demonstrators supporting six black teenagers jailed for allegedly beating a white classmate.