For months now critics have been grumbling about the selection of Lei
Yixin, a Chinese sculptor — rather than an African-American — to carve
a stone statue of Dr. King on a four-acre plot between the Lincoln and
Jefferson Memorials. Read more at NYTimes.com
The FBI is reviewing a white supremacist Web site that purports to list
the addresses of five of the six black teenagers accused of beating a
white student in Jena and "essentially called for their lynching." Read more at CNN.com
Authorities in Alexandria, less than 40 miles southwest of Jena,
arrested two people who were driving a red pickup Thursday night with
two nooses hanging off the back, repeatedly passing groups of
demonstrators... Read more at CNN.com
A judge in Jena, Louisiana has denied a request to
release an African-American teenager whose arrest in the beating of a
white classmate sparked a large civil rights protest in the southern
U.S. state. Read more at VOANews.com
On Wednesday, the civil rights activist said in a statement that he was
"taken out of context." It said he commended Obama "for speaking out
and demanding fairness on this defining issue. Any attempt to dilute my
support for Sen. Obama will not succeed." Read more from The Associated Press
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