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Earlier this week, Robert Bailey Jr. pleaded not guilty to reduced charges in the case of the \u201cJena Six.\u201d Bailey was one of five teens originally charged as an adult with attempted murder following an alleged altercation with a white student in Jena, Louisiana. Mychal Bell has already been tried and convicted of aggravated battery by an all-white jury. Bell is set to be sentenced on September 20th where he faces up to 15 years in prison. The physical confrontation in question followed months of racial tension in the small northern Louisiana town of Jena. In August of last year, three white students hung nooses from a traditionally \u201cwhites only\u201d tree on the campus of Jena High School the day after a black student sought shade beneath it. A school superintendent called the hateful act a prank and opted to only suspend the white students for three days furthering racial tensions in the town. The case of the Jena Six has garnered national and international media attention. Civil Rights leaders Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton visited Jena this past weekend and called for the charges to be dropped or to be further reduced to misdemeanors. Amnesty International has written the US justice department calling for an urgent review of the case. Thousands of supporters are expected to gather in Jena on September 20th, the day of Mychal Bell\u2019s sentencing. <\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/www.blackcollegewire.org\/news\/070904_jena-six\/jena.jpg\"\/)
GUESTS: Jordan Flaherty, editor of Left Turn Magazine, Reverend Brian Moran, Pastor at the Antioch Baptist Church<\/em><\/p>\n