Tipping the Scales of Justice in Jena

By Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate
Posted on September 19, 2007, Printed on September 24, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/63052/

The tree at Jena High School has been cut down, but the furor around it has only grown.

"What did the tree do wrong?" asked Katrina Wallace, a stepsister of one of the Jena Six, when I interviewed her at the Burger Barn in Jena, La. "I planted it 14 years ago as a tree of knowledge."