Today has not been kind to New Orleans’ favorite football hero, Drew Brees, after he once again put his foot so far in his mouth that both friends and family feared he would choke. Only a few short months ago Brees was in hot water for his support of the hate group Focus on the […]
Part one: Let’s get this out of the way Donald Trump must go. His administration has proven to be destructive and divisive. He has courted white supremacists and Wall Street and bedded them together in a ménage à trois of greed, guns, and pu**y grabbing. He has made incompetence look like a skilled artform. He […]
I’ve come to the conclusion that Facebook has become a safe haven for hate speech rather than a safe space for minorities and disenfranchised groups. According to Facebook’s community standards, hate speech is defined as “direct attack on people based on what we call protected characteristics — race, ethnicity, national origin, religious affiliation, sexual orientation, […]
Mardi Gras, the February celebration renowned around the world, has a long and rich history that is often unknown and overlooked by tourists and locals alike. In 1699, a French-Canadian colonist arrived near what is now New Orleans, and named it “Pointe du Mardi Gras” because he realized it was the eve of a popular […]
In Louisiana, we have created a “charter-school system” with broad latitude, with the permission of BESE, to be unaccountable to our families, our tax-payers, and our local school districts. The losers in this unaccountable system are our students. There is a caste system that exists where children of color, and their families, are forced through […]
Gary Landrieu, an independent running for Governor and cousin of former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu and former Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu, received pushback after dropping the n-word on WGSO 990, a talk radio show. He explained that because his family members were sympathetic to African Americans, he used to be picked on and called […]
Confederate monuments to intolerance and prejudice are the give-away taster to America’s undeniably biggest historical hang-up – that of race.
Update: The group has now grown to over 33,000 members since this interview. At five and a half thousand members, the Facebook group Where Black NOLA Eats is described as a “safe space for the black New Orleans community, our allies, and visitors to promote black business and other businesses that value our dollars.” The […]
Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner calls on white women to engage in difficult conversations with one another and to become change agents to dismantle racism in America.
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