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As her eyes scrolled down the computer screen, the forwarded message read like a scene from a Jim Crow-era documentary. A tree that only Whites could sit under, nooses hung in a schoolyard, a Black teen facing a 22-year sentence for beating a White classmate.

May 06, 2008 The head of the detectives union will go to Washington Wednesday to ask the Feds not to bring civil rights charges against the officers acquitted in the Sean Bell shooting. Detectives Endowment Association President Michael Palladino and union lawyers, are set to meet Wednesday with Michigan Congressman John Conyers, who is the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. They are also scheduled to meet with New York Congressman Jerry Nadler. Conyers and Nadler traveled to Queens to meet with Bell's supporters last month, and Palladino said he wants the lawmakers to hear the detectives' side of the story. Meanwhile, Reverend Al Sharpton says he plans to be arrested tomorrow as he organizes a number of pray-ins and acts of civil disobedience at locations across the city. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said that the city would respect Wednesday's protesters, but crack down on any law-breaking. "We will enforce the law, and we will do everything we can to make sure we don't violate anybody's rights, anybody's right to express themselves," said Bloomberg. "But at the same time those people who don't want to protest, they have rights too, and that's the beauty of the First Amendment." Sharpton said Bell's fiancée, Nicole Paultre-Bell and Bell’s friend Joseph Guzman also plan to be arrested. Sharpton said he is building up to a demonstration that will shut down the city. He warned people participating in the pray-ins that they should be prepared to go to jail. LOCATIONS OF BELL VERDICT PROTESTS Wednesday, May 7 at 3 p.m.Third Avenue at 125th Street Park Avenue at 34th Street Third Avenue at 60th Street Varick and Houston Streets One Police Plaza 415 Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn

"We think this will have an impact on the audience, give them greater understanding and awareness of what's going on in Sudan," explained dance company president Rebecca Davis. "We hope people can take the time to learn more about this particular genocide."