Michael Baisden Provides National Support for the Jena 6

On September 20, best-selling author and radio personality Michael Baisden will be broadcasting his program live from Jena, Louisiana. This broadcast will be in support of six young black male high school students whom the country has come to known as the Jena 6. Many people from across the country will rally and protest in Jena, a small town where racism, segregation and Jim Crow laws are still enforced. On that day that Mychal Bell is scheduled to be sentence to prison on what many people are calling bogus racially motivated charges.

Community leaders such as Jesse Jackson, Reverend Al Shaprton and the NAACP are calling for all Americans to wake up and take notice of the blatant racism that remains to be a problem in our country.

Back Ground Information on the Jena 6:

Last fall in the small segregated rural community of Jena Louisiana, a black student asked school administrators for permission to sit in the shade under a tree which was reserved for the enjoyment of white students. The school officials gave the students permission to sit under the tree but the next day three nooses, in the school colors were hung from the tree. The principle of the school recommended suspension for three white students who pulled that racist prank. The school superintendent over ruled the principles decision and gave the three young men a mere three day suspension.

Months following the incident, racial tension ran high at the school. In December of 2006, a white student was allegedly beaten by black students. He was taken to the hospital and released in that same evening; he also attended a social function that night after he was released from the emergency room.