Heather Faison, NNPA Special Correspondent
- One of the most important e-mails to land in Kourtney Addison’s inbox was seconds away from being cyber trash.
As her eyes scrolled down the computer screen, the forwarded message read like a scene from a Jim Crow-era documentary. A tree that only Whites could sit under, nooses hung in a schoolyard, a Black teen facing a 22-year sentence for beating a White classmate.
Immediately, she thought it was a joke. “It just seemed so unreal,” she recalled of the story later known as the Jena Six. “It was just blatant racism.”
