Friday, July 27, 2012

Urban Bush Women Summer Leadership Institute Concludes This Weekend With Festival of Performance

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Urban Bush Women have returned to New Orleans for another of their legendary Summer Leadership Institutes . This summer's theme is ce...
Thursday, July 26, 2012

Community Profile: Brenda Williams of VOTE

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After attending an “outstanding” presentation that VOTE sponsored at Ashé Cultural Arts Center in Central City, Miss Brenda Williams wa...
Monday, July 16, 2012

Creating Excellent Schools is not the Same as Creating Excellent School Systems, by Dr. Lance Hill

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Republished from Diane Ravitch's blog : Charter schools that perform better by recruiting and retaining better students don’t exi...
Friday, July 13, 2012

Homelessness, Displacement, Evictions . . . This Sounds Familiar, By Hannah Adams

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There are a number of obvious parallels between housing needs in New Orleans after the 2005 hurricanes and housing needs in Haiti afte...
Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Junebug Productions Welcomes Stephanie McKee as New Artistic Director

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From our friends at Junebug Productions : The Board of Directors of Junebug Productions, Inc. is pleased to announce the appointment ...
Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Beasts of the Southern Wild, A Hollywood Film With Roots on Louisiana’s Disappearing Coast, Opens Tomorrow

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Earlier versions of this article originally were distributed via Agence France Presse , and in Louisiana Weekly . The Gulf Coast loses a f...
Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Backlash Mounts as the Louisiana Supreme Court Prepares to Seat First Black Chief Justice

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From a press release sent out today: Justice Bernette Joshua Johnson , who has served as an Associate Justice on the Louisiana Supre...
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Structurally Unemployed Workers Deliver Juneteenth Proclamation to City of New Orleans

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From our friends at the New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice : Stand with Dignity Commemorated Juneteenth by delivering a...

Newly Formed Observer Group to Monitor Today’s Oil Lease Auction

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From our friends at Louisiana Bucket Brigade :   Khaki Vests and Citizen Monitor Buttons Identify Oil Monitoring Group Fifteen Citizen M...
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Celebrate Juneteenth

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A Juneteenth Message from our friends at Critical Resistance : Tuesday, June 19, marked Juneteenth, the commemoration of the end of for...
Monday, June 11, 2012

Women With A Vision Opens at Temporary New Space, Launches Blog to Document Progress on Recovery After Arson

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This message comes from our friends at Women With A Vision : Dear friends and family,  With the fire at Women With A Vision now t...

Choice Of Weapons: A Commentary on Youth in New Orleans, by Maitefa Angaza

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Sometimes Truth whispers conspiratorially; other times it gets naked in public. This was one of those times. On May 31, Truth painted a...
Saturday, June 2, 2012

Black People, All People, Bleed Red, By Greta Gladney

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On Tuesday, I returned home after ten days travel. I use my time away from the office and New Orleans to recharge, re-energize and refocu...
Thursday, May 31, 2012

Call to Action: Stop Deporting Community Organizers!

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From our friends at the New Orleans Workers Center for Racial Justice : “The main reason people don’t stand up for themselves and defend th...
Monday, May 28, 2012

Warning NOPD: Not My Sons! by Tracie Washington

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My friends Richard and Hilda McCline needed a couple of guys to help them move boxes from the American Can to storage. So on Thursday, Ja...
Sunday, May 27, 2012

New Orleans Filmmakers Win Major Award at Cannes Film Festival

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Beasts of the Southern Wild , the remarkable film by a collective of New Orleans filmmakers calling themselves Court 13 , won the Caméra d’...
Friday, May 25, 2012

Official Statement From Women With A Vision After Recent Arson

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This letter and video is reposted from the website of Women With A Vision . You can donate on their site: http://wwav-no.org . Dear friends,...
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Break-in and Arson at Offices of Women With a Vision, Local Organization That Advocates for Poor Women of Color

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UPDATED: See youtube video embedded below featuring Deon Haywood and footage from WWAV office. For the official statement from WWAV, as we...
Saturday, May 19, 2012

Another Day in Court for Angola Three Prisoner

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From our friends at the International Coalition to Free the Angola 3 : On Tuesday, May 29th, Albert Woodfox will begin a 3 day hearing tha...
Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Five Reasons Drone Assassinations Are Illegal, By Bill Quigley

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US civilian and military employees regularly target and fire lethal unmanned drone guided missiles at people across the world. Thousands...