Charter Schools: Championed as Improving Schools in New Orleans But at What Cost to the Black Community?

July 1, 2018

In African-American neighborhoods of New Orleans, there is no question that schools anchor communities.  This is a no-doubt-about-it fact of NOLA life. Schools are the polling places during political season.  Schools are the festival grounds for celebrations.  Schools house the legacies of progress and pride for many generations of local residents!  Celebrities and powerful people […]


Fake News! Lagniappe to Louisiana’s Local Politics

June 1, 2018

On Nov. 2nd, 2015, three weeks before Louisiana voters decided who would become their next governor, The Hayride, a popular right-wing blog largely focused on and funded by a small network of Republican political operatives, published a shocking report that quickly went viral: 10,000 Syrian refugees, they claimed, were “resettling in Baton Rouge, Lafayette, and […]


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