THOUSANDS PROTEST JENA SIX TODAY. Over at Pandagon, Pam Spaulding chides the progressive blogosphere for providing scant coverage of the controversy in Jena, Lousiana, where thousands of people from all over the nation have converged today to protest the fates of six black high school students who were charged with attempted murder for beating up a white student. The entire sad saga -- which began when white students hung nooses under a schoolyard tree to signify that black students weren't welcome to sit there -- is the subject of our top story today at TAP, so check it out. But fundamentally, Spaulding is right. White progressives arrived late to this story, which owes much of its national amplification to bloggers of color (and radio DJs). Sites like Racialicious, Dallas South, and Keith Boykin are great resources, and they should be better linked into the predominantly white progressive political blogosphere. I plan on trying much harder to do my part. --Dana Goldstein
