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Ted Shaw and Damon Hewitt

NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Guest Commentators

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Commentary

Jena Six – Another Lesson in the Role of Race and the School to Prison Pipeline

By Ted Shaw and Damon Hewitt

The current issue is always free to everyone By now, most people in this country have heard of the Jena Six – the black male high school students in the town of Jena, LA, who were charged as adults with crimes ranging from aggravated battery to attempted murder for their involvement in a schoolyard fight.…

The current issue is always free to everyone By now, most people in this country have heard of the Jena Six - the black male high…

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