JENA – Jena’s mayor will appoint an interracial committee to study race relations and how they might be improved in the small central Louisiana town where a civil rights march drew 20,000 people from around the country. “We felt this was a positive move,” Councilman Tommy Sandifer said after the city council voted 5-0 Wednesday for Mayor Murphy McMillin’s proposal. “This has been birthed out of the Jena Six situation.”
