Almost a year ago, in the small northern Louisiana town of Jena, a group of white students hung three nooses from a…

Speaking to demonstrators in front of a rural Louisiana courthouse last week, Alan Bean, a Baptist minister from the Texas panhandle, inveighed…

Post-Katrina, New Orleans received the headlines.  The government response was a glaring example of the heartlessness and incompetence of the Bush administration,…

Community centers have long been central to New Orleans organizing, serving as a gathering location for people, culture and ideas.  One activist…

The city is an international symbol of neglect and racism. But the federal government isn’t the only one to blame.    …

Awasa, Ethiopia — “The United States is Ethiopia’s best friend in the world,” more than one Ethiopian has told me in recent…

Fifteen months after New Orleans became an international symbol ofgovernmental neglect and racism, the city remains in crisis.  Students are still without…

“I want as many people to come visit here as possible,” a lower 9th ward resident named Calvin told me as we…

In New Orleans’ Central Business District, a prominent billboard advertising Southern Comfort liquor proclaims “Nothing Stops Mardi Gras.  Nothing.”  The festive ad…

When hurricane Katrina hit, there was no evacuation plan for 7,000 prisoners in the New Orleans city jail, generally known as Orleans…