Our pal and content partner Shawn Williams of Dallas South and Dallas South Sports has really been on top of the Jena 6 story.

Today, Howard Witt interviews him in the Chicago Trib:

"In traditional civil rights groups, there's a pattern—you call a meeting, you see when everybody can get together, you have to decide where to meet," said Shawn Williams, 33, a pharmaceutical salesman and former college NAACP leader who runs the popular Dallas South Blog.

"All that takes time," Williams added. "When you look at how this civil rights movement is working, once something gets out there, the action is immediate—here's what we're going to write about, here's the petition, here's the protest. It takes place within minutes, hours and days, not weeks or months."

Good on ya, Shawn. We're proud to have you as a partner.