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'This is much bigger than Jena': Rallies on Baltimore campuses demand justice for 6 black students in La.
Byline: Kelly Brewington Sun Reporter
Sep. 21--Chanting civil rights slogans and swaying to "We Shall Overcome," hundreds clad in black gathered on the campuses of Morgan State and Coppin State universities yesterday calling for justice for the Jena 6.
They were college students, university administrators, local elected leaders and activists stung by the images of nooses dangling from a schoolyard tree last year in Jena, La., and outraged at the prosecution of six black teens in a case they said exemplifies racism and unequal justice permeating American society.
"This is much bigger than Jena," said M.K. Asante Jr., an English professor at Morgan State University, who required his students to attend the rally.
"There are Jena 6 cases happening in Maryland, in Pennsylvania and around this country," he said. "What we need to do is focus all our energy on the institutional problems that allowed Jena to happen. Instead of being a society that responds to symptoms, we need to fight the deeper problems such…
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