Jena Six

According to the AP, Mychal Bell, one of the group of young African American students dubbed the Jena 6, has been released on a $45,000 bail.

More importantly, this follows hours after the court also ruled that Bell will be tried in juvenile court. Again, not the best case scenario, but at least it shows that public outcry is having an effect on the terms of his potential incarceration– in the sense that at least he is finally being recognized as a child.

How is that for bleak, when bail and juvenile court bring a sense of real improvement to racial injustice? More after the jump.

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According to this story by Christi Parsons in the Chicago Tribune, Barack Obama came with it during a Democratic candidate’s forum yesterday to the NAACP (story below). The article compares his statements to the NAACP with a speech he gave at Howard University, where he spoke in “mostly lofty terms.” At the NAACP event in Detroit, however, Parsons’ describes Obama’s statements as combining “his intellectual assessment of social problems with a stronger does of personal feeling.”

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