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DREAM Activist Describes Fear After Alabama’s HB 56: ‘I’m Not The Only One’
By Julianne Hing, originally posted on Colorlines.com on 10/18/11. Families are fleeing Alabama, teachers are comforting the panicked children who are still in school,read more
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Small businesses struggle on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
We here on the Gulf Coast have fishermen and oystermen that are not licensed and bonded. They are subsistence fishermen who catch food for themselves and their families, and to sell informally to the...
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Listen: exploring the connections between women's rights and immigration
Houston resident Aurelia Suchilt was detained two times, for more than two months each, in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities due to mistakes in bureaucratic paperwork. Iconic...
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Black Leaders Get Closeup View of Alabama’s New Jim Crow
By Elon James White, originally published on Colorlines. Recently I was invited to be a part of a delegation of labor leaders heading down to Alabama to speak out against one of the worst immigration...
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New Orleans Is No Education 'Miracle'
By Linda Tran, via Justice Roars. An article recently posted on the Education Week website offers an imporead more
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Hours after being evicted, Occupy NOLA joins forces with Survivors Village to...
Press release from Survivors Village. New Orleans -- Survivors Village, a community group of former St. Bernard public housing residents and their allies, joined forces today with recently evicted...
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Alabama faces civil rights complaint over landfill taking waste from TVA coal...
Crossposted from Facing South. The Alabama Department of Environmental Management faces a civil rights complaint for read more
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How a radio station in Alabama is taking on the nation’s toughest...
Yesterday, a crowd of about 3,000 - 4,000 crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama; Today, the Civil Rights activists continue on a week-long, 50-mile march from Selma to Montgomery. These...
View ArticleBP Agrees to Pay $4 Billion Settlement for Gulf Coast Disaster
Crossposted from Colorlines. News reports say that BP has entered into a settlement with the Department of Justice for criminal penalties for the 2010 BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. According...
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The Easy Death of Human Beings
The shooting that maimed twenty people on Mother’s Day in New Orleans has been classified as “strictly an act of street violence” by the FBI. This hurts my heart. Calling the violence inflicted upon...
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There are No Monsters Shooting People in New Orleans
On Saturday, the Original Big Seven Social Aid and Pleasure Club paraded again, retracing their steps, and beyond—to the end of the route they never got to complete a few weeks ago. read more
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What Our Federal Lawmakers from the Gulf Region Should Learn from Senator...
Last Thursday in Lake Charles, Louisiana, U.S. Senator David Vitter of Louisiana was asked by Ms. Dorothy Felix, a resident of Mossville, why he sponsored a legislative revision of the Safe Chemicals...
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Frederick Douglass, Justice, and Trayvon Martin
Originally posted on the Alliance Institute blog.read more
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