I heard some of the testimony regarding the Jena 6 case that was give before the House Judiciary committee on Tuesday. Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee of Houston was pretty upset about the whole thing. Ryan Grim of The Politico was on hand for the hearing and reports on the tension filled...
The Final Call has posted an exclusive interview with Megan Williams, who was tortured severely for a week in West Virginia. In her own words, Ms. Williams gives an unfathomable account of the days she spent with Frankie and Bobby Brewster, Karen and Alisha Burton, Danny Combs, and George Messer....
Again, many thanks to the Chicago Tribune’s Howard Witt for his work and this interview. The interview can be viewed in it’s entirety at NowPublic. DSB Why do you think it took the national media almost 4 months after your original article to cover what was happening in Jena. HW:...
JENA, La. (AP) ? A teenager at the center of a civil rights controversy is back in jail after a judge sentenced him on charges that were pending before the attack that put him in the national spotlight, his attorney said Thursday. Mychal Bell, who along with five other black...
It's ironic that on a night back in September when I originally sent Mr. Witt an e-mail requesting an interview, he replied that he wanted to interview me for a story that he was doing about the Jena rally. It's been an interesting road in the 4 weeks since then...
Last March, Howard Witt wrote an article in the Chicago Tribune about the sentencing of a 14 year-old girl in my hometown of Paris, Texas. In the 6-plus months that have followed, the landscape of the internet, the civil rights movement, and the media has greatly changed. Some, including yours...
Howard Witt continues his fine work for the Chicago Tribune, this time revisiting my hometown of Paris, Texas. The Chicago Tribune was the first (national paper) to publish the story last March of ShaQuanda Cotton, the 14-year-old African-American girl from Paris, Texas, who was sentenced to up to 7...
The blogosphere has afforded me to come across a number of like minded individuals spread across the net, some of whom I can now call my friends. One such person is Adrianne George who publishes the blog Black Women in Europe. Adrienne describes BWIE as having been "created by an...
Anyone who reads enough books will come across a few that will profoundly affect your life. Miseducation of the Negro, Wake of the Wind, and Seven Habits of Highly Effective People have moved me in that way. Cooked:From the Streets to the Stove, from Cocaine to Foie Gras is now...
I've been a little out of touch for the last few days, but I've turned on CNN 3 times and 3 times the stories have dealt with African-Americans. One story was about a father's anger at the police's response to a fatal car crash involving his son. CNN quotes the...
