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Katrina Pain Index: New Orleans three years later
by Bill Quigley 0. Number of renters in Louisiana who have received financial assistance from the $10 billion federal post-Katrina rebuilding program Road Home Community Development Block Grant –...
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Three years and 69 days: Obama’s victory as seen from New Orleans
Scroll down for New Orleans News Briefs by Darwin BondGraham No one is more invested in Obama's victory than Black youth. These children's campaign signs proclaim variations on the theme, "We love...
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Damaged roots in the fight for public housing?
Breaking the taboo on challenging nonprofit developers that drive out residents and destroy low-income housing by Anita Sinha Residents fought long and hard to return to their homes and beloved...
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No evictions: Gulf Coast residents can keep their FEMA trailers
In a sudden reversal of its plan to evict thousands of FEMA trailer residents in the Gulf Coast, the White House announced June 3 that residents would be able to buy their trailers for $5 or less....
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Fight heats up over discriminatory housing laws in New Orleans area
Alice Walker, Oprah Winfrey and President Obama are pulled into local battle by Jordan Flaherty Welcome to St. Bernard Parish! This sign was photographed there in late 2005, a few months after...
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Haitians seek shelter and survival, New Orleanians send bargeloads of aid
by Jordan Flaherty The New Orleans to Haiti Barge Initiative (http://louisianajusticeinstitute.blogspot.com/2010/02/louisianahaiti-sustainable-village.html), a program of the Louisiana-Haiti...
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Third Street Stroll …
by Rochelle Metcalfe This column was written and published in the Sun Reporter in December 2006 in I Heard That, the column Rochelle Metcalfe wrote for decades. Tens of thousands of mostly Black New...
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COVID-19 further burdens Oakland’s Black homeless population’s quest to survive
What joy for a vulnerable elder when the cupboard is bare to receive a food box from the East Oakland Collective! by JR Valrey, The Black New World Journalist Society Candice Elder, founder and...
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