Jena Shows Race Relations Still Have a Long Way to Go

Philadelphia Weekly | September 24, 2007
The six Louisiana high school students, like their young ancestors the Scottsboro boys and the Little Rock Nine, have become a modern-day symbol of Jim Crow justice -- and the implications of their case, which struggled for attention, are a testament for us all.

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