New Orleans
Wendell Pierce from TV's "The Wire" Launches Effort to Help Underserved New Orleans Communities
Wendell Pierce, actor and native New Orleaner, talks about the recovery in New Orleans after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, and his new effort to bring supermarkets to the underserved population of the city in the hopes that rebuilding a community from the bottom-up may protect the unprotected, discriminated-against, and impoverished New Orleaners from disaster in the future.
Investing in American Strength: An Overlooked Lesson of Hurricane Katrina
On the sixth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's destruction of New Orleans and with the tenth anniversary of 9/11 approaching, Melissa Harris-Perry points out that while America has learned some short-term lessons, the long-term lessons about the vulnerability of American institutions have gone largely unaddressed.
Transgender Community in New Orleans Speaks Out Against Abuse and Discrimination by Police
May 13, 2010 - 6:00am (Print)
New Orleans' Black and transgender community members and advocates complain of rampant and systemic harassment and discrimination from the city's police force, including sexual violence and arrest without cause.
Wanderlust Meets Reproductive Justice Activists in New Orleans
