There was a mid-sized, peaceful, gathering on our campus today at noon. I had a meeting, but saw the local news covering so I will watch for it when I get home.
Here's another interesting article from The Gardian (a UK paper, and thier timeline and retelling of the events is very similar as the other two I posted). I think your complaint about sources, KF, could stem from the fact that this is only recently getting a lot of "mainstream" media coverage.
"If the symbolic threat of a schoolyard lynching makes this sound like a tale from a bygone era, then what happened next belongs very much to the present. It is a story of institutional indifference and judicial impunity that today condemns black American men: not to end their lives hanging from a tree, but to spend it rotting in jail. It illustrates to those who would like to draw a line under the civil rights era that they must first contend with its legacy before claiming to have conquered history. It serves as a salient example that legal barriers to integration may have been removed - itself no mean feat - but the ultimate goal of equality remains elusive.
And it shows that just because you are allowed to do something - even something as basic as sitting under a tree - it doesn't mean that you are able to."
"At the high school's homecoming rally on Friday there were plenty of cheers for the black and gold of the Jena Giants, the school football team, but no talk of festering bitterness between black and white.
White people here don't want to talk about it. They resent being portrayed as rednecks. They have a point."
Apart from the noose, this is an everyday story of modern America | Columnists | Guardian Unlimited