Michael Lohman, the NOPD Lieutenant who conspired with other officers to cover-up the police killings on Danziger Bridge, and later became ...

“We can save ourselves” For many years New Orleans has maintained one of the highest per capita death rates in the United States. Crimes of ...

The culture of violence is a product of a culture of poverty . How can we talk about 16 shootings in one day and not mention 65% of black...

Among the many great artists and writers living in New Orleans, we are truly fortunate that the author Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts has made her hom...

Few in New Orleans can forget the sight, in January of 2007, when New Orleans police officers involved in the killings on Danziger Bridge w...

Yesterday, the racial justice website ColorLines paid tribute to New Orleans activist Rafael Delgadillo , who has chosen to forgive the men ...

From a press release from the Formerly Incarcerated & Convicted Peoples Movement : National Movement to End Human and Civil Rights Abu...

As the Occupy Movement has taken root in New Orleans and other cities, messages of solidarity - and advice - have arrived from around the wo...

No one listens to poor people. They listen to attorneys. As a child, I believed those two statements because I watched how people treated my...

Over the past few weeks, I have been invigorated and moved by the energy surrounding Occupy Wall Street and its offshoots across the nati...

From Our Friends at Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana: SUFEO! Trains Legal Advocates: New Orleans Recovery School District Out of School...

On September 22 the Census Bureau released information from their 2010 annual American Community Survey based on a poll of 2,500 people in ...

By Wadner Pierre Part I Jean-Juste died two years ago from Leukemia because he was jailed for his political views and was not allowed by th...

From our friends at Streetwise & Safe : LGBT Immigrants At Risk of Deportation, Violence as a Result of Police/ICE Collaboration Dozens ...

Broken and collapsed buildings remain in every neighborhood. Men pull oxcarts by hand through the street. Women carry 5 gallon plastic ju...

The Times-Picayune announced on Friday that the US Department of Justice will not be pursuing charges against the Gretna police officers wh...

An interesting feature on the ColorLines website maps out the national influence on the Broad Superintendents Academy, an organization tha...

This profile is republished from our friends at VOTE-NOLA: Like many others, Vernon Bolds was introduced to VOTE by an existing member. “Pos...