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5 Things that Won’t Stop the Violence in New Orleans

On Sunday morning, around 10 am, I posted this image (right) and accompanying text on Instagram: “I was starting to get salty about having to work on Mother’s Day. Then I got some perspective handed to me real fresh & simple.”

The flyer advertises a "free support group for children of homicide victims." [...Read more]

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Rosana Cruz

The Perils of Looking 'Suspicious' While Black and Interpreting While White

By Pam Nath. Sometime around 5:30 a.m., on March 1, 2012, an off-duty policeman working for a private neighborhood security force stopped two young black men driving in a predominantly white neighborhood in New Orleans. The officer called for back up. [...Read more]

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Bridge The Gulf

What are expungements, and why do they matter?

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Bridge The Gulf

“There’s Too Much Misinformation About Us Out Here" An Interview With Norris Henderson

By Parnell Herbert, orginially posted on Justice RoarsWhile sitting with Norris Henderson upstairs at the RAE House, I couldn’t help but mar [...Read more]

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Bridge The Gulf

We who believe in freedom cannot rest



We who believe in freedom CANNOT REST!! The loss of Troy Davis is a living testimony that we must continue the conversation about the Justice System; From the ways people enter, the inhuman conditions that PEOPLE go through while they are in jail, and the way people exit and re-enter society. Let's mourn but do not give up. Know that the battle may be lost but the war has just begun.

Let us Pray: Oh Divine Creator of the Heavens and the Earths, hear our pray that NO ONE ELSE is killed by this horrendous Death Penalty.  St. Francis - Pray for us. [...Read more]

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Derek Rankins

A Mother's Art Brings Attention to Wrongly Convicted Young Men

The article below was originally published on Loop21.comHer son, No Limit rapper "Mac," is serving 30 years, her art proclaims his innocence. [...Read more]

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Jordan Flaherty

Sex Offender Registration for Sex Workers Ends in Louisiana

Crossposted from the Louisiana Justice Institute. Louisiana's era of forcing certain convicted sex workers to register as sex offenders appears to be over. [...Read more]

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Jordan Flaherty

Why Mississippi governor's sudden show of mercy is no 'shining example'

By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Crossposted from Facing South. [...Read more]

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Bridge The Gulf

The Incarceration Capital of the US

school 2 prison sign A struggle over the size of New Orleans’ jail could define the city’s future [...Read more]

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Jordan Flaherty

Living in New Orleans After Katrina

By Jordan Flaherty, Images by Zeph Fish.  Graphic essay orgininally published in Truthout.

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Jordan Flaherty