Just over a year ago, three nooses were hung from a tree at the town's high school, launching an already segregated town into a race-driven conflict. At the end of it, six students were charged with attempted second-degree murder and conspiracy and sentenced to 100 years in jail.

Jordan Flaherty is an independent journalist and editor of Left Turn magazine. He was one of the first to bring the case of the Jena Six to an international audience.

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