Source: MSNBC
The noose — like the burning cross — is a generations-old means of instilling racial fear. But some experts suspect the Jena furor reintroduced some bigots to the rope. They say the recent incidents might also reflect white resentment over the protests in Louisiana.
Source: CNN
A noose was discovered this week on the office door of an African-American professor at Columbia University, school officials and the New York Police Department said.
Source: NY Daily News
A noose was found dangling in a Long Island town's police department, horrifying officials who rushed to condemn the hateful act.
Six black teens beat up a white kid in Jena, Louisiana, and Al Sharpton hails it as "the start of the 21st century civil rights movement." The white teen who was assaulted had nothing to do with the hoo-ha.
Source: CNN
Sharpton: Bail being posted for Mychal BellStory Highlights Bell and five other black teens are accused of beating white student Justin Barker Beating followed white students hanging nooses from a tree on school grounds
Source: CNN
Authorities in Alexandria, Louisiana, arrested two people after nooses were seen hanging from the back of a red pickup Thursday night, the city's mayor told CNN.
Source: NY Daily News
The tree that started all the trouble was one of those beautiful old Southern oaks with thick outspread boughs offering a haven of cool shade in the noon heat. It stood outside the high school in rural Jena, La., where it was known as the White Tree.
Source: Independent.co.uk
The US civil rights leader and former presidential candidate Jesse Jackson set off a racial firestorm yesterday after he accused his fellow Democrat and fellow African American, Barack Obama, of "acting like he's white" in his campaign for the White House.
Source: NBC 5
During a civil rights lawsuit brought by black employees, a bag of hangman's nooses was found under the plant's human resources director's desk, Ferguson reported. Clayton said that when black employees complained, nothing changed.