Posts Tagged ‘Hurricane Katrina’

Trafficking from a racial justice advocate’s point of view

Trafficking from a racial justice advocate’s point of view
By Ejim Dike, As a long-time racial justice advocate, I am often thinking of the intersections between my work and that of related movements. We all know that race, gender, class, and immigration status do not operate in a vacuum, but at times it can be difficult to find ways to incorporate even more...
January 13th, 2011 | Slavery/Human Trafficking | Read More

Kanye should never have apologized to Bush

Kanye should never have apologized to Bush
by Dr. Boyce Watkins, Syracuse University – Scholarship in Action One of the proudest moments in my life as a political observer was when Kanye West did something that almost no other artist or entertainer would be astute or courageous enough to do.  In 2005, as people were dying in the streets...
November 12th, 2010 | African Americans, Featured, Talk About Race | Read More

Katrina pain index 2010 New Orleans — five years later

Katrina pain index 2010 New Orleans — five years later
It will be five years since Katrina on August 29. The impact of Katrina is quite painful for regular people in the area. This article looks at what has happened since Katrina not from the perspective of the higher ups looking down from their offices but from the street level view of the people...
August 10th, 2010 | Featured, Racial Equity | Read More

James Perry’s run for mayor of New Orleans

James Perry’s run for mayor of New Orleans
By Jordan Flaherty, Originally published in Colorlines. On New Year’s Eve in 2004, nine months before Hurricane Katrina hit, bouncers in the Bourbon Street club Razzoo’s killed a Black college student named Levon Jones. The outrage led to near-daily protests outside the club, threats of a Black tourist...
January 29th, 2010 | Politics, US | Read More

EDITORIAL: Obama’s speech addressed several categories of people and communities except race and ethnicity

EDITORIAL: Obama’s speech addressed several categories of people and communities except race and ethnicity
What a long, strange year it’s been. A year that began with the loud insistence by some that Barack Obama’s election confirmed the United States as an essentially colorblind, post-racial nation went on to present a series of spectacular counterpoints to that claim – flaps over Attorney General...
January 28th, 2010 | Featured, State of the Union | Read More

Black to brown: The changing face of New Orleans

Black to brown: The changing face of New Orleans
Originally posted on The Grio The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and throughout the Gulf Coast and the ongoing economic recession have much in common. Then as now, communities already marginalized by race, poverty, and geography also the ones hardest hit. Then as now, we learned that...
August 28th, 2009 | Talk About Race | Read More