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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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The Jena Six: Of nooses, fights, narratives, and movement building

February 8, 2023 Pamela Oliver Black Movement, Social Movements

NOTE: Since writing this blog I have gained more information and have written a longer paper with more details that gives a somewhat different slant on some events. I will link to that paper when I’ve finished revising it. There was a huge wave of Black protests in the wake

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