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This article chronicles the foundation for the Jena 6 case.  It involves the provocation of the black students by white students with the hanging of three nooses under the "White Tree."  This led to violence against blacks by some white students, moving on to retaliation by black students.  After this event, an assembly was called in which black and white students sat on opposing sides of the gym.  The District Attorney turned to the blacks and said "See this pen in my hand?  I can end your lives with the stroke of a pen."  The first to be tried in the case of the Jena 6 is Mychal Bell, who faces 22 years in prison on a 2nd degree battery charge.

Here's a blog about the Jena6. 

I gathered from google search that this is a website for the American National Socialist Workers Party.
Soon after news of the Jena 6 broke they had numerous racist and grotesque articles in support of the action and charges the youths face. The later went on to talk about hatred toward Jews, "kidnap famous Jews".
Just another reminder that racism and racial conflict is very much alive and organized, even if it doesn't rare its ugly head frequently.
The site is currently "down" and as such their ellaborative website has been degraded to predominantly a body of text.

seems like a good general website for information regarding Jena 6

This is what stood out to me the most!!! It is unbelievable to think that we may be entering another civil rights movement.

Jena 6 like many other racially related occurrences. Media attention has big effect on case.

If you scroll down a little bit, there are a bunch of quotes from people from the area who were involved, both parents and students. It's interesting to get all of those different perspectives on the whole situation, especially the whole noose incident.