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Wilmington 10

In this July 26, 1937 file photo, police escort two of the five recently freed "Scottsboro Boys," Olen Montgomery, wearing glasses, third left, and Eugene Williams, wearing suspenders, forth left through the crowd greeting them upon their arrival at Penn Station in New York. In a final chapter to one of the most important civil rights episodes in American history, Alabama lawmakers voted Thursday, April 4, 2013, to give posthumous pardons to the "Scottsboro Boys": nine black teens who were wrongly convicted of raping two white women in 1931. (AP Photo, File)

What infamous civil rights cases need closure?

David A. Love
OPINION - America’s civil rights history evokes a sense of pride and accomplishment, given the hard-fought battles waged in the courtroom and in the streets, and those who were maimed and martyred in the process...
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Wilmington Ten

NC governor pardons 'Wilmington 10'

Joy-Ann Reid
theGRIO REPORT - After years of claims that they were wrongly convicted, nine African-American men and one white women wrongly imprisoned for an arson fire in North Carolina that stemmed from racial unrest over integrated schools have been pardoned...
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