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New Orleans
The $2 Billion Bail Industry Is Facing an Existential Crisis
It will take more than bail reform to end mass incarceration.
New Orleans Approves Natural Gas Power Plant Despite Environmental Racism and Climate Concerns
The city council recently approved construction of a $210 million natural gas power plant.
Black Lives Matter Activist Muhiyidin d’Baha, Who Grabbed Confederate Flag, Shot Dead in New Orleans
Black Lives Matter activist Muhiyidin du2019Baha died Tuesday.
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Bourbon Street Strip Club Employees Fight Back
On January 19 and 24, New Orleans police and Louisiana state police raided eight strip clubs on Bourbon Street.
Democrats and Devos: Partners in the Illusion of School Choice?
The US has refused to realize the 1954 mandate of “Brown v. Board” to address deep-seated education inequity.
As Last Confederate Statue Is Removed in New Orleans, Will School Names and Street Signs Follow?
New Orleans has removed the last of four Confederate statues in recent weeks.
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Monuments to White Supremacy Are Finally Falling in New Orleans
Removing statues of white supremacists is more than a symbolic gesture in this majority-Black city.
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How Gentrification Is Killing US Cities and Black Lives
“How to Kill a City” exposes how gentrification monetizes the loss and destruction of Black communities.
An Outside-the-Doctor’s-Office Approach to Health Care
Research is showing that health care can be an engine for community change.
New Orleans’ Ninth Ward Fights Freeway Through Historic Black Neighborhood
New Orleans residents are fighting a racist freeway project that would damage the community and uproot families.