Alleged KKK member's conviction overturned on a technicality

A three-judge panel has overturned the 2007 conviction of alleged Ku Klux Klan member James Ford Seale on a technicality.  In the 20 page ruling that came down Tuesday, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals...

Sometimes Justice Can Be Very Patient

"A white former sheriff's deputy who was once thought to be dead was arrested on federal charges Wednesday in one of the last major unsolved crimes of the civil rights era -- the 1964 killing of two black men who were beaten and dumped alive into the Mississippi River. The...

Ex-deputy arrested in 1964 race case

I grew up in the river city of Natchez, Mississippi. I remember these times, and these crimes and others like them. It has taken 40 years for the wheels of justice to finally turn. Forty years for an...

Inside the Black Panther Party: An Interview with Bobby Seale

"BOBBY SEALE is the co-founder and former chairman of the Black Panther Party. He is the author of Seize The Time, a compelling account of the Black Panther Party and its other co-founder Huey P. Newton. Seale is also the author of the autobiography called A Lonely Rage. ...

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