In this eloquent piece, a local journalist from Jena dispels the myths that sprang up after a group of local thugs ambushed and stomped another student. Craig Franklin, assistant editor of the Jena Times, speaks out...
Alleged plagiarism outed in Columbia University professor's case--but are there racial overtones? After Madonna Constantine claimed she found a noose hanging on her office door, some have said she manufactured the incident to protect herself from ongoing investigations.This...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorTwo murder suicides in one week, lovers whose lives ended for no reason, as families come to grip and say why?Calgary's Murder Suicide of the Lall family by the husband who...
The new New York governor David Patterson has signed legislation to make displaying a noose, a symbol of the lynching of African Americans common during the reconstruction era, illegal in New York state."Gov. David...
"A Papua New Guinea woman gave birth prematurely as she struggled to free herself from a hangman's noose, after villagers lynched her and her husband believing they were involved in sorcery, local media...
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It is amazing how the application of law manages to defy logic in so many circumstances. Merriam Webster's Eleventh edition lists two definitions for threat:
- an expression of intent to...
vandals tie a noose around the neck of the bronze statue of Tupac Shakur (2Pac)
Hat Tip: ThugLifeArmyThe Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation (TASF) regrets
to report that a series of attacks have taken place...
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I have yet to hear the neo-conservative far-right in the United States that swears on the Christian deity of wrath that anti-African racism is long dead say a word about this. Not only are African students...
What better place to kill your wife, just hang her up and use her as a prop. "Spokane, WA (KXLY) - He wanted to avoid a divorce, so police say a Spokane man took his wife to his garage to show her a haunted house he...
Americans are really losing it. War and occupation does that to societies. - The Angryindian------------------------------------------------"October 10, 2007 -- A bitter rivalry could be behind the...
The hangman’s noose is a hated symbol of Old South
lynchings and figured prominently in the case against six black teens
in Jena. They were charged in the beating of a white schoolmate in the
culmination of...
A noose was found in a suburban police headquarters in Long Island, New York. One article about the incident states the department recently noted its participation in a national effort to recruit...
One would think that Americans would be ashamed of this but they aren't. Even further, I find it quite embarrassing that a foreign observer can plainly see what Americans refuse to acknowledge. So much...
All Things Considered, July 30, 2007 · As at hundreds of other high schools across America, black and white students at Jena High School in Jena, La., rarely sit together. The white students gather under a big...
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"The ruling class in Washington and New York are likely clinking glasses this weekend in a grand celebration. This week, with the announcement that both parties' major candidates are vacuuming up corporate cash like never before, they treated America to the beginning of the...