Summary: Education Week reports, The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on Tuesday launched what its leader ambitiously called “the start of a national conversation on formulating a new civil rights agenda for the 21st century,” but without significant input from mainstream civil rights organizations or the panel’s two Democratic members. In related news The Root reports, Congressional Black Caucus, Rep. Barbara Lee, one of the nation's most prominent African-American instruments for social change. Released a memo in which she encouraged America and the media to revamp how they discuss race and racism, and called the phrase "national dialogue about race" a cliché. USA Today Reports, Evelyn Rasco, the mother who has been pushing for her daughters, Jamie and Gladys Scott to be released from prison for 16 years, picked up two big supporters Tuesday — the attorney who prosecuted the case and the president of the NAACP. Advocates for the Scott sisters have been relentless in their online activism in ratcheting up calls to pardon them on blogs, podcasts, Facebook pages and YouTube videos for quite some time. Nancy Lockhart of the website Wrongful Convictions and a long time Scott Sisters Advocate spoke about the recent developments to Black Talk Radio by phone. Black Talk Radio News Briefs is a Black Talk Media Project production, a non profit encouraging new media production and collaboration among independent Black media producers. Make a donation today!
