Shwo Talk with Angela Butler

The guest on Show Talk with Angela Butler is Ricky Jason. Jason is a film director and activist. Jason made the film documentary about James Byrd. Byrd is from Jasper Texas and was tied and dragged behind a truck by three white three white men and two were white supremacists.featured Martin Luther King III,rdDick Gregory who is then first black man to run for the presidential nominee. Congress Maxine Waters.The three mean are Shawn Berry, Lawrence Russell Brewer, and John Kin...g who dragged Byrd for three miles behind a pick-up truck along an as phalt road. Through most of the dragging James Byrd remained consciousThe murderers drove on for another mile before dumping his torso in front of an African-American cemetery in Jasper. Byrd's lynching-by-dragging gave impetus to passage of a Texas hate crimes law. It later led to the federal Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, commonly known as the Matthew Shepard Act, which passed on October 22, 2009, and which President Barack Obama signed into law on October 28, 2009. Lawrence Russell Brewer was sentenced to death in 1999. Elijah RickY Jason will be talking about the recent kiilings of black American youth. The show will be on 12-01-2014 at 7 PM EST and 6 PM CST. The call in number is 1-347-327-9376.