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The Jena Six were six black teenagers in Jena, Louisiana, convicted in the 2006 beating of Justin Barker, a white student at the local Jena High School, which they also attended. Barker was injured on December 4, 2006 by the members of the Jena Six, and received treatment at an emergency room.
4 gru 2021 · Bryant Purvis was just 17 when he became a part of the "Jena Six." He and five other Black teens were accused and later convicted of attacking a white student at a high school in Jena, Louisiana, a town with a large majority of white residents, after a series of racially charged incidents there.
8 lut 2023 · A September 6 article with the headline “Jena High noose incident triggers parental protests” reports on a meeting of Black parents on Tuesday September 5 at L&A Missionary Baptist Church to discuss what to do.
10 lip 2007 · Last December, six black students at Jena High School were arrested after a school fight in which a white student was beaten and suffered a concussion and multiple bruises. The six black students...
29 kwi 2019 · Theo Shaw, standing outside the Louisiana Supreme Court where he clerked for the chief justice, in late 2018. A Louisiana man whose life was almost thrown away by the criminal justice system...
5 lip 2017 · On Dec. 4, 2006, a group of six black students – who came to be known as the Jena 6 –were arrested for the beating of Justin Barker, a white high school student.
30 sie 2011 · In December, six black boys brutally beat a white student, and five of the suspects were charged with attempted murder. Black talk radio hosts and civil rights leaders nationwide protested the...
