Monthly Archives: November 2009

BBC correspondent, Tom Mangold was the first reporter to build an in-depth television story around Jena, Louisiana.  Now the British journalist has the distinction of being the first reporter in any medium to address the social currents swirling around the case of Curtis Flowers.  I … Continue reading →

If Adam Liptak is right, liberals, conservatives and libertarians have come to distrust our criminal justice system.  Liberals think it’s unfair; conservatives think it’s too expensive; libertarians think it’s too intrusive.  Liptak was in Tulia, Texas for the evendentiary hearings that … Continue reading →

We don’t like whiners, do we?  And with good reason.  The belief that the cards are intentionally stacked against you can be a one-way ticket to professional disaster . . . even if it’s true.  The Washington Post recently looked at unemployment … Continue reading →

Shane Claiborne Shane Claiborne is a radical Christian in the sense that he tries to live as if Jesus was completely serious.  Recently, Claiborne was approached by Esquire, a men’s fashion magazine.  The editor who called wasn’t sure what he was … Continue reading →

Jesse Ray Beard, the youngest Jena 6 defendants, was featured on CBS Evening News on Friday evening.  It was a human interest piece about a young man making the most of dramatically altered circumstances.   The crux of the story is that … Continue reading →

This post is from Charles Kiker, a retired minister (and founding member of Friends of Justice) living in Tulia, Texas. There’s an excellent article in the current (December 1) issue of The Christian Century, in their occasional “How my mind has … Continue reading →

Twelve members of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan rallied at yesterday’s game between Ole Miss and LSU in Oxford.  For years the Ole Miss band has played “Dixie” during football games.  In 1962, then-governor Ross Barnett got so … Continue reading →

Fannie Lou Hamer was born in Montgomery County Mississippi in 1917, the last of Jim and Ella Townsend’s twenty children.  At the age of two, her parents moved to a plantation outside of Ruleville in Sunflower County.  The price of cotton was … Continue reading →

Wesley Pruden (and practically every other conservative pundit) thinks Barack Obama is a wimp for bowing to Japanese emperor Akihito.   The world is supposed to grovel before the American Imperium; real Americans bow to no one.  Pruden, the editor emeritus of the conservative … Continue reading →

Laws.com has an article featuring the fifty best Justice blogs.  Friends of Justice comes in at number 11, although I have no idea how the rating order was determined or what consitutes a ”justice blog”.   Still, if you want to know who else … Continue reading →