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• Rapper Foxy Brown gets locked up

  Published: September 7, 2007, 7:09 pm

  Tags: Inga Marchand, Rappers In The Criminal Justice System, Punitive Punishment, Probation Violation, Foxy Brown, Criminal Injustice System, Race

  Hat Tip: Samuel Maull, Associated Press, Yahoo News. Foxy Brown was sentenced to one year in jail Friday for violating probation stemming from a fight with two manicurists in a New York City salon. Criminal Court Judge Melissa Jackson sentenced the rapper at a probation hearing for Brown, 28. “I’m not going to give you any more

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• Louisiana black caucus appeals to Gov. Blanco

  Published: September 13, 2007, 9:38 pm

  Tags: Jena 6, Racist Prosecution, Jena Louisiana, Punitive Punishment, Gov Kathleen Blanco, Police Prosecutorial Misconduct, Criminal Injustice System, Racism, Race, Racial Profiling, White Supremacy, Power Games, Politics

  Hat Tip: By Sherrell Wheeler Stewart, BlackAmericaWeb The Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus asked Gov. Kathleen Blanco to intervene in the case of the Jena Six, but the governor maintains that state law prevents her from acting at this time. Black Caucus Chairman Rep. Juan LaFonta wrote Blanco a letter on Monday and said he spoke with the

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• Jesse Jackson takes Obama to task over Jena 6

  Published: September 19, 2007, 6:13 pm

  Tags: 2008, Barack Obama, Jena 6, Jesse Jackson, Obama For President, Politics, Power Games, Race, Jena Louisiana, Political Expediency, Punitive Punishment, Racism, Racist Prosecution

  disproportionate criminal punishments black youths too often face. Jackson also said Obama, who consistently has placed second in state and national polls behind New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, must be bolder in his political positions if he is to erase Clinton's lead. Jackson is the only African-American ever to carry South Carolina in a

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• To the Jena 6: Just hold on, change is coming

  Published: September 20, 2007, 10:10 pm

  Tags: Al Sharpton, Black Politics, Criminal Injustice System, Jena 6, Jesse Jackson, Louisiana Politics, Politics, Power Games, Race, Jena Louisiana, Mychal Bell, New Orleans Katrina, Political Expediency, Punitive Punishment, Racial Profiling, Racism, Racist Prosecution

  on the disproportionate punishment of people of color in the criminal justice system warms my heart. That’s something that this skeptical brotha can get with enthusiastically. Much remains to be done and it is not simply a local issue. I hope that that Congresswoman Waters and Congressman Conyers grasp that a comprehensive

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• Mychal Bell is freed on bail

  Published: September 27, 2007, 7:07 pm

  Tags: Jena 6, Louisiana Politics, Politics, Power Games, Race, Reed Walters, Jena Louisiana, Mychal Bell, Political Expediency, Punitive Punishment, Racism, Racist Prosecution

  Hat Tip: Doug Simpson, Associated Press A black teenager whose prosecution in the beating of a white classmate prompted a massive civil rights protest here walked out of a courthouse Thursday after a judge ordered him freed. Mychal Bell’s release came hours after a prosecutor confirmed he will no longer seek an adult trial for the

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• Finally, CBC steps up on the Jena 6

  Published: September 27, 2007, 6:20 pm

  Tags: Congressional Black Caucus, Gov Kathleen Blanco, Jena 6, Politics, Power Games, Race, Reed Walters, Jena Louisiana, Mychal Bell, Political Expediency, Punitive Punishment, Racism, Racist Prosecution

  Hat Tip: N.O. Times Picayune, Associated Press The Congressional Black Caucus is asking the Justice Department to investigate possible civil rights violations in the “Jena 6″ case that sparked a massive protest in Louisiana last week. “This shocking case has focused national and international attention on what appears to

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• Mychal Bell’s bail set at $45,000

  Published: September 27, 2007, 5:59 pm

  Tags: Al Sharpton, Gov Kathleen Blanco, Jena 6, Louisiana Politics, Martin Luther King Iii, Politics, Power Games, Race, Reed Walters, Jena Louisiana, Mychal Bell, Punitive Punishment, Racist Prosecution

  Hat Tip: (CNN) — Bail was being posted Thursday for Mychal Bell, a black teenager accused of beating a white classmate, after a district attorney’s announcement that he would not appeal a higher court’s decision moving Bell’s case to juvenile court, according to the Rev. Al Sharpton. Mychal Bell, 17, is accused with five

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• Mychal Bell back in jail

  Published: October 12, 2007, 4:39 pm

  Tags: Al Sharpton, J P Mauffrey Jr, Jena 6, Politics, Race, Racist Judges, Reed Walters, Jena Louisiana, Mychal Bell, Probation Violation, Punitive Punishment, Racism, Racist Prosecution

  this was a cruel and unusual punishment and is a revenge by this judge for the Jena Six movement,” said Sharpton, who helped organize the protest held Sept. 20, the day Bell was originally supposed to be sentenced. Bell’s parents were also ordered to pay all court costs and witness costs, Sharpton said. “I don’t know what

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• Tom Joyner sends Genarlow Wilson to Morehouse College

  Published: January 10, 2008, 6:40 pm

  Tags: Genarlow Wilson, Georgia Politics, Pinstripe Klansman, Politics, Race, Tom Joyner, Tom Joyner Morning Show, Political Expediency, Punitive Punishment, Racism, Racist Prosecution, Satutory Rape

  NPR’s News and Notes and the Atlanta Journal Constitution is reporting that “the Fly Jock, ” Tom Joyner, is sending Georgia student Genarlow Wilson, the young brotha sentenced to 10 years in prison for consensual oral sex, to Morehouse College next week. God is good. Say what you wanna say about Tom, but Tom Joyner is my hero

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