Question: James Rucker is the co-founder of Color of Change, an online activist organization that aims to strengthen the political voice of African Americans in the United States, it was founded by Rucker and Van Jones in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and helped to raise awareness for the cause of the Jena Six, were six black teenagers in Jena, Louisiana, convicted in the beating of Justin Barker, that occurred in what year, a white student at the local Jena High School, which they also attended?
Context: The United States Senate has had ten African-American elected or appointed office holders.  The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral United States Congress, which is the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States.  The US Census Bureau defines African Americans as citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa.  The term is generally used for Americans with at least partial ancestry in any of the original peoples of sub-Saharan Africa.  During the founding of the federal government, African Americans were consigned to a status of second-class citizenship or enslaved.  No African American served in federal elective office before the ratification in 1870 of the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.  The Fifteenth Amendment prohibits the federal and state governments from denying any citizen the right to vote because of that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude.  Of the ten senators, six were popularly elected (including one that previously had been appointed by his state's governor), two were elected by the state legislature prior to the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1913 (which provides for the direct election of U.S. Senators by the people of each state), and two were appointed by a state Governor.  The 113th United States Congress (2013–15) marked the first time that two African Americans served concurrently in the Senate. James Rucker is the co-founder of Color of Change, an online activist organization that aims to strengthen the political voice of African Americans in the United States.  The organization was founded by Rucker and Van Jones in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and helped to raise awareness for the cause of the Jena Six. Color of Change is a progressive nonprofit civil rights advocacy organization in the United States.  It was formed in 2005 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in order to use online resources to strengthen the political voice of African Americans.  Color of Change is a 501(c)(4) advocacy organizing with an affiliated political action committee.  Rashad Robinson serves as the organization's executive director. Online communities build off social movements, enabling the connection of persons worldwide to develop a base and gain awareness to the cause.  Online social movements gained momentum in the late 20th century and early 21st century as new generations sought social change.  With access to the internet and the fast growing World Wide Web, online social movements brought awareness to issues both political and social.  Online social movements have been praised and criticized; the former for its ability to raise awareness to important causes, and the latter for its ability to perpetuate problems like slacktivism.  Although online activism has received criticism, it has had real impacts on social movements. Surviving High School is a visual novel game developed and published by Electronic Arts.  It was originally released for mobile phones in 2005, later being made available for iPhone and iPod Touch in 2009 and for iPad and Android OS in 2011.  New episodes are released and available for download on a weekly basis.  It shares many similarities in terms of gameplay mechanics and visuals to its sister game, "Cause of Death", which is also developed by EA Games.  Some of the characters from Surviving High School now feature in the sister game "High School Story" by Pixelberry Studios.  The character Autumn Brooks transferred out of the Surviving High School after being bullied, and now features heavily in High School Story, alongside other characters with minor roles such as Owen, Wes and Kimi.  This ties in with a bullying theme carried through High School story and their partnership with The Cybersmile Foundation.  Autumn's bullying storyline from Surviving High School enables her to help a student called Hope in High School Story, who is being cyberbullied; this storyline helps to raise awareness of the issue of bullying and cyberbullying in high school age students. The Jena Six were six black teenagers in Jena, Louisiana, convicted in the 2006 beating of Justin Barker, a white student at the local Jena High School, which they also attended.  Barker was injured on December 4, 2006, by the members of the Jena Six, and received treatment at an emergency room.  While the case was pending, it was often cited by some media commentators as an example of racial injustice in the United States.  Some commentators believed that the defendants had been charged initially with too-serious offenses and had been treated unfairly. Jena High School is a secondary school located in Jena, Louisiana, United States.  The school, serving grades 9 through 12, is a part of the La Salle Parish School Board.  As of 2006-2007, the school enrollment was 538 students. The Think Before You Speak campaign is a television, radio, and magazine advertising campaign launched in 2008 and developed to raise awareness of the common use of derogatory vocabulary among youth towards lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning (LGBTQ) people.  It also aims to "raise awareness about the prevalence and consequences of anti-LGBTQ bias and behaviour in America’s schools."  As LGBTQ people have become more accepted in the mainstream culture more studies have confirmed that they are one of the most targeted groups for harassment and bullying.  An "analysis of 14 years of hate crime data" by the FBI found that gays and lesbians, or those perceived to be gay, "are far more likely to be victims of a violent hate crime than any other minority group in the United States".  “As Americans become more accepting of LGBT people, the most extreme elements of the anti-gay movement are digging in their heels and continuing to defame gays and lesbians with falsehoods that grow more incendiary by the day,” said Mark Potok, editor of the Intelligence Report.  “The leaders of this movement may deny it, but it seems clear that their demonization of gays and lesbians plays a role in fomenting the violence, hatred and bullying we’re seeing.”  Because of their sexual orientation or gender identity/expression, nearly half of LGBTQ students have been physically assaulted at school.  The campaign takes positive steps to counteract hateful and anti-gay speech that LGBTQ students experience in their daily lives in hopes to de-escalate the cycle of hate speech/harassment/bullying/physical threats and violence. Chalmette High School is a high school in the Chalmette area of unincorporated St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, United States.  It is a part of St. Bernard Parish Public Schools.  Chalmette High School opened in 1954 at the current site of Chalmette Elementary School, previously known as Chalmette Middle School.  In 1962, the school moved to the current location on the corner of Palmisano Avenue and Judge Perez Drive.  On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina flooded the school, which was being used as an emergency shelter, along with the rest of the Greater New Orleans area.  Chalmette High hosted the St. Bernard Unified School, before reopening as Chalmette High School for the 2006-2007 school year.  In 2009, "U.S. News" magazine released their rankings of the best high schools in America, based on test scores and other factors.  Chalmette earned a bronze medal as one of 39 schools in Louisiana to make the list. The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the most active Atlantic hurricane season in recorded history, shattering numerous records.  The impact of the season was widespread and ruinous with an estimated 3,913 deaths and record damage of about $159.2 billion.  Of the storms that made landfall, five of the season's seven major hurricanes—Dennis, Emily, Katrina, Rita, and Wilma—were responsible for most of the destruction.  Stan was the most destructive storm that was not a major hurricane.  The Mexican states of Quintana Roo and Yucatán and the US states of Florida and Louisiana were each struck twice by major hurricanes; Cuba, the Bahamas, Haiti, Mississippi, Texas, Alabama, and Tamaulipas were each struck once and in each case brushed by at least one more.  The most catastrophic effects of the season were felt on the United States' Gulf Coast, where a 30 ft (10 m) storm surge from Hurricane Katrina caused devastating flooding that destroyed most structures on the Mississippi coastline; subsequent levee failures in New Orleans, Louisiana caused by the storm crippled the city.  Furthermore, Hurricane Stan combined with an extratropical system to cause deadly mudslides across Central America, with Guatemala being hardest-hit.
Answer: 2006