Free the Jena six.

• Position: On the Line

Jena, Louisiana

Demonstrators marched through town on July 31 to protest the prosecution of six black students who allegedly beat up a white student after racist incidents at Jena High School. It all started last fall when white students insisted that blacks could not sit under the "white" tree in the school courtyard. When one black student decided to sit there anyway, white students put up nooses on the tree and taunted black students. Eventually a fight broke out, with a white student getting knocked...