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Comparing News Coverage and Google Trends About Jena

June 29, 2025 Pamela Oliver Black Movement, Research on protest & social movements, Social Movements

The last two posts gave details about trends in media coverage and Google searches about Jena. In this post, I put the two series together to see how they relate. First, we look at the close-up of coverage and trends in the 40 days around the big protest. The plots

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Google Trends About Jena

June 27, 2025 Pamela Oliver Black Movement, Research on protest & social movements, Social Movements

This is another post that is a small side project to the piece I’m revising about the Jena 6 protest in 2007. The goal is to use Google Trends to see if I could determine whether any of the early publicity about the case made a difference in the trends.

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News Coverage of the Jena 6

June 18, 2025 Pamela Oliver Black Movement, Media, Social Movements

On September 20, 2007, tens of thousands of Black people converged on the small rural town of Jena, Louisiana to protest charging six boys with attempted murder after a school fight in which the victim, while knocked unconscious and injured, had been able to attend an event that evening. The

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Jena Videos

June 5, 2025 Pamela Oliver Black Movement, Social Movements

The Jena Six protest happened on September 20, 2007. The Jena Six had been charged after a December 2006 fight. In this blog I’ve collected links to some videos, images, and retrospectives about the case. I expect to return to this site to edit it to make it more organized.

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Conclusions about Jena 6 Mobilization – a draft

January 15, 2025 Pamela Oliver Black Movement, Research on protest & social movements, Social Movements

I’ve just submitted the draft of my piece about the Jena 6 that is a substantial extension and revision of the blog post I wrote a couple of years ago. It will need a 20% cut before publication and responses of editors and reviewers may lead me to rethink my

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graph showing mix of issues in different source types for Black protests

Black Protests of 1990s and 2000s in Black Newspapers vs Mainstream Newswires

May 21, 2024 Pamela Oliver Black Movement, Social Movements

My research team just posted a working paper that compares Black newspapers and mainstream newswires in their coverage of Black American protest events. In this paper we are just trying to lay out the big patterns we see in the data so we can do more work to refine the

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Coverage of Black Anti-Police Protests

March 15, 2024 Pamela Oliver Black Movement, Research on protest & social movements, Social Movements, Uncategorized

Update: The latest version of this paper has a new title, updated numbers that include more events identified in the process of reviewing and cleaning the data, and a somewhat different emphasis, but the basic findings are much the same. The SocArXiv link will take you to the latest version

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A Decades-Long Movement: Media Coverage of the Mobilization for Mumia Abu-Jamal, 1994-2013

January 22, 2024 Erin Gaede Black Movement, Social Movements

A sustained campaign throughout the 1990s and 2000s successfully opposed the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal.

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Cincinnati 2001: Police Killing of Timothy Thomas and Insurrection

January 19, 2024 Pamela Oliver Black Movement, Police, Racial issues, Research on protest & social movements, Social Movements

General Background The events in Cincinnati were often referred to as the largest riot or rebellion since 1992 in Los Angeles and/or the largest riot or rebellion in Cincinnati since the 1960s. On Saturday April 7 2001, 19 year old Timothy Thomas was shot and killed while running away from

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Cincinnati 2001 Protests: A First-hand account

January 19, 2024 Pamela Oliver Black Movement, Police

A narrative by Carl Sack about his experience during the 2001 Cincinnati protests. Carl wrote this narrative at the request of Pam Oliver, who had heard him describe these incidents. Carl is a White man who is now a PhD Geographer who is on the faculty of a community college. This

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