Equal Justice Initiative (www.eji.org)

Race and Jury Selection Media

News and Opinion

New York Times Editorial: Justice in the Jury Box, June 4, 2010 [1]

New York Times: Study Finds Blacks Blocked From Southern Juries, June 1, 2010 [2]

Mercury News: Mehserle Case Re-Ignites Debate Over Lack of Diverse Juries, July 10, 2010 [3]

National Law Journal: Racial Bias Common in Jury Selection, June 3, 2010 [4]

Agence France Press: Racism Still Blights Southern US Juries, June 6, 2010 [5]

On the Web

Campus Progress: Equal Justice Initiative Releases New Report on Race and Juries [6]

The Root: Jim Crow in the Jury Box [7]

The Root: Black Jury Candidates Tell of Bias [8]

The Leadership Conference: Study Finds Jury Selection Process Tainted by Racial Discrimination in Southern States, June 4, 2010 [9]

Digital Journal: Jury Injustice: Report Details Exclusion of Blacks from Juries [10]

Tapped, The American Prospect Blog: The Persistence of Jury Discrimination [11]

AOL News: Blacks Stricken From Juries in Southern States [12]

Arkansas Times Blog: The Color of Justice [13]

Care 2 Blog: Blacks Routinely Kept Off Juries [14]

Legal Briefing: Southern Juries Are Still Lily White [15]

Democracy Now: African Americans Face Widespread Jury Exclusion in US South [16]

JD Journal: Study Finds Minority Jurors Remains Elusive Down South [17]

Campus Progress: Age, College Attendance Used to Exclude Black Southern Jurors [18]

Atlanta Post: Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection Remains Widespread [19]

AllGov: African Americans Still Excluded from Southern Juries
[20]

This Can't Be Happening: Racism in the Courts [21]

Feministe: African Americans Routinely Blocked from Juries in the South [22]

The Root: Is Enron's Jeffrey Skilling a 2010 Scottsboro Boy? [23]

ACS Blog: King’s Vision of a More ‘Just and Merciful’ Judiciary [24]

Source URL: http://www.eji.org/raceandpoverty/juryselection/raceandjurymedia

Links:
[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/opinion/06sun2.html?ref=opinion
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/02/us/02jury.html?emc=eta1
[3] http://eji.org/eji/files/07.10.10%20Mercury%20News%20-%20Mehserle%20case%20re-ignites%20debate%20over%20lack%20of%20diverse%20juries.pdf
[4] http://eji.org/eji/files/06.03.10 National Law Journal - racial bias common in jury selection.pdf
[5] http://eji.org/eji/files/06.06.10 AFP - racism still blights southern us juries.pdf
[6] http://www.campusprogress.org/news/5833/you-really-ought-to-read-the-eji-s-new-report-on-race-and-juries
[7] http://www.theroot.com/views/jim-crow-jury-box
[8] http://www.theroot.com/views/black-jury-candidates-tell-bias?page=0,0
[9] http://eji.org/eji/files/06.04.10 Leadership Conference - study finds jury selection process tainted by racial disc in so states.pdf
[10] http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/292996
[11] http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=06&year=2010&base_name=the_persistence_of_jury_discri
[12] http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/study-blacks-stricken-from-juries-in-southern-states/19500294
[13] http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/arkansasblog/2010/06/the_color_of_justice_1.aspx
[14] http://www.care2.com/causes/civil-rights/blog/blacks-routinely-kept-off-juries/
[15] http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/company-news/bp-criminal-probe/19500109/
[16] http://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/2/headlines/study_african_americans_face_widespread_jury_exclusion_in_us_south
[17] http://www.jdjournal.com/2010/06/02/study-finds-minority-jurors-remains-elusive-down-south/
[18] http://www.campusprogress.org/news/5600/study-age-college-attendance-used-to-exclude-black-southern-jurors
[19] http://atlantapost.com/2010/06/03/racial-discrimination-in-jury-selection-remains-widespread/
[20] http://www.allgov.com/Controversies/ViewNews/African_Americans_Still_Excluded_from_Southern_Juries_100603
[21] http://eji.org/eji/files/062510 Thiscantbehappening - racism in the courts.pdf
[22] http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2010/06/02/african-americans-routinely-blocked-from-juries-in-the-south/
[23] http://www.theroot.com/views/enron-jeffrey-skilling-scottsboro-boy?page=0,1
[24] http://www.acslaw.org/acsblog/king%E2%80%99s-vision-of-a-more-%E2%80%98just-and-merciful%E2%80%99-judiciary