Uhuru Radio: First They Fail Us! Then They Jail Us! Hands Off Shaquanda!

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Hosts Ivory Sobukwe-SoDaye, International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM) President, and co-host Kobina Bantushango will speak with Creala Cotton and Brenda Cherry about Shaquanda Cotton, an African girl who, in March 2006, at the age of 14, was sentenced to 7 years (an indeterminate time not to exceed her 21st birthday) in the Texas Youth Commission's juvenile detention facilities for allegedly shoving a hall monitor at her high school in Paris, Texas. Creola Cotton, Shaquanda's mother, is a political activist in Paris, Texas. She began filing complaints against school administration when her own children were being mistreated in the schools. She along with her long time friend, Brenda Cherry then began an organization called Concerned Citizens for Racial Equality (CCRE). Together, they would defend countless African children who were being terrorized in the schools. In 2007, Creola and Shaquanda Cotton formed a committe with InPDUM to bring about justice and participated in the 2007 InPDUM Convention.