Once again the Scottsboro Boys saga is going to be performed, and he gathers his actors for the nightly plunge into their various parts, which for him include two creepy political players ...

Few episodes of racism in our country resonate like that of the trial of the Scottsboro boys. In 1931 ... In fact, the play resembles a cartoon version of events, perhaps the biggest insult ...

What made this case unique and worth remembering seven decades later was the involvement of the International Labor Defense (ILD) and its legal and political campaign to free the "Scottsboro Boys." ...

On Thursday, Alabama’s parole board pardoned the last of the long-dead Scottsboro Boys, nine black teenagers ... has a history of being very good at political theater, but I think this is ...

THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS, the exhilarating new Kander & Ebb ... wears its social conscience and its political incorrectness on its sleeve. And while the result is thoughtful, vibrant entertainment ...

It can make another major step by pardoning - posthumously - defendants from the infamous 1931 "Scottsboro Boys" case in which ... be granted haphazardly or for political purposes.

People gathered in Scottsboro on Thursday to celebrate Juneteenth at the Scottsboro Boys Museum. The event offered the ...

The Scottsboro Boys were headline news around the country ... communist ideology and eventually be soldiers for economic and political revolution. The NAACP looked to use existing American ...

The Supreme Court case cited in Trump’s brief is one of two that are directly connected to the Scottsboro Boys rape cases, in which nine Black youths were falsely accused in 1931 of raping two ...

Kander and Ebb were known for the political content of their work ... It seems contradictory, especially since “The Scottsboro Boys” also borrows from minstrel shows, including a white ...