This week America witnessed the continuation of a number of stories which have achieved notoriety over the past few months - all of which, in some fashion, touch upon explosive areas of racial tension.
- Following the Cherokee Nation's decision to revoke the tribal membership of approximately 2800 descendants of people the Cherokee once owned as slaves, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation convened a panel yesterday to "examine the historical, legal, and current status of the Cherokee Freedmen Indians."
- In the wake of the Don Imus controversy earlier in the year, a Congressional hearing (" From Imus to Industry: The Business of Steretypes and Degrading Images") heard testimony in defence of hip hop's right to free expression from Mississippi rapper David Banner.
- More developments in the ongoing case of the Jena 6, six black Louisiana high school students charged with beating a white student in the wake of racist attacks: following last week's protest march on Jena, Mychal Bell has been released on bail posted by a benevolent stranger.
