The Jena Six were six black teenagers in Jena, Louisiana, convicted in the 2006 beating of Justin Barker, a white student at the local Jena High School, which they also attended. Barker was injured on December 4, 2006, by the members of the Jena Six, and received treatment at an emergency room.

2021年12月4日 · He and five other Black teens were accused and later convicted of attacking a white student at a high school in Jena, Louisiana, a town with a large majority of white residents, after a series of racially charged incidents there.

2007年7月10日 · Six black students at Jena High School in Central Louisiana were arrested last December after a school fight in which a white student was beaten and suffered a concussion and multiple bruises.

Tension flared between black and white students and ultimately, six black high school students were charged with attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder for their role in the altercations.

2011年8月25日 · Members of the Jena Six are determined to move away — and learn — from their controversial pasts. They say they want to be something one day: A sports agent, a lawyer, a military man. Those...

2019年4月29日 · Theo Shaw, standing outside the Louisiana Supreme Court where he clerked for the chief justice, in late 2018. A Louisiana man whose life was almost thrown away by the criminal justice system...

The case of the Jena Six exposed racial injustice and inequality following an incident involving six male African American teenagers.

2023年2月8日 · The Jena Six were Black teens who were charged with attempted murder after the beating of a fellow student at Jena High School in Louisiana. There are at least two interesting narratives to trace in the case. One is what happened at Jena High School and what causal attributions were made about the relation between events.

2011年8月30日 · In August 2006, a black student in Jena, La. asked if he could sit under a tree on campus or if it was reserved for whites. Three nooses hung from the tree the next day. In December, six black...

2007年9月7日 · The Jena school case drew protests after five of the six teens, dubbed the "Jena Six," were originally charged with attempted second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder, carrying ...