(NNPA)—To young African-Americans, the “Scottsboro Boys,” may sound like the name of a country and western band. But to older Blacks, the “Scottsboro Boys” symbolize the most Southern of Southern taboos during the early 1900s: the allegation of an African-American raping a White woman—even if untrue—was certain to end with the accused being imprisoned or, more often, lynched.

A museum opened this month in Scottsboro in hopes of educating the public about one of the most infamous incidents in Alabama’s bloody past. The museum is a small section of an old African-American church in Scottsboro, a sleepy predominantly White city nestled along Highway 72 between Huntsville, Ala., and Chattanooga, Tenn.

(REAL TIMES MEDIA)—Several weeks ago Ed Schultz, MSNBC and the left’s answer to Rush Limbaugh, made an interesting suggestion that was probably a throwaway line in his early show monologue. He said there should be a “poor people’s news."

Acknowledging that he, along with the Keith Olbermans, Rachel Maddows and Bill O’Reillys of the world are incredibly well paid and comfortable, that inevitably skews what they’re going to cover and focus on in the news. I mean think about it, (13 percent) of the U.S. population is considered poor, that’s a pretty big number and it’s growing every minute when you consider how lousy the economy is going. How would coverage of health care be different if the voiceless had a voice, how would crime, job losses or even more abstract, the upcoming mid-term elections look if we actually took the feelings thoughts and attitudes of the poor into news coverage? I have a pretty good idea, and I think it’d change the way we cover news forever.