Bowie makes donation to race trial defence fund

David Bowie has donated $10,000 to a legal defence fund for six black teenagers charged in an alleged attack on a white classmate in the tiny central Louisiana town of Jena.

The rocker’s donation to the Jena Six Legal Defence Fund was announced by the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People as thousands of protesters were expected to march through Jena tomorrow in defence of Mychal Bell and five other teenagers.