We Need More Than Symbolic Change
Pulling Down Statues is Just Step One By Jeff Thomas Living now sure feels like history in the making. COVID, video recordings of police violence, and people protesting in the…
2020 Movement Needs Some Structure
By Jeff Thomas A Simple Guide to the Next Steps in the Movement 2020 is a year of disruption. Covid19 and public protests have transfixed and transformed the country. COVID…
MORE THAN A VOTE
By C.C. Campbell-Rock Two weeks ago, LeBron James stepped up to launch the biggest civil rights campaign launched by athletes since Colin Kaepernick took a knee in 2016 to protest…
4 Reasons Why Activists Burn Out
Vinita Mehta Ph.D., Ed.M. Recent research sheds light on what racial justice activists are up against. THE BASICS America’s social justice movement for racial equality appears to be full steam…
Rename the Parkway
From the Louisiana Weekly Dr. Norman C. Francis lived here. Confederate President Jefferson Davis merely died here. In the discussion to rename the picturesque, bicycle-pathed parkway stretching from Bayou St.…
FROM The NEW ORLEANS TRIBUNE
It’s Time to Unmask and Address America’s Racial Inequities A NEW ORLEANS TRIBUNE EDITORIAL Racism in America is institutional. The nation’s legal, business, civic and social constructs and the policies,…
The Magical Thinking of White Supremacists
by Iskra Fileva Ph.D. Some supremacists believe they deserve credit for others’ accomplishments. White supremacists like to say that most of the achievements of Western Civilization were achievements of white men.…
It’s A Wonder Nobody Is Talking About Defunding The S&WB
By Kenneth Cooper I had a dream I punched turbine 4 in the face. It was a wonderful moment. Light rain was falling. People were kayaking up Carrollton as I…
How New Orleans to New York fueled slavery and police brutality
Policing started in these two cities and must be changed by them By Lloyd “Rip” Lazard Wall Street got its’ name from an actual wall that was built by the…
A lesson in policing from New Orleans history
by ORISSA AREND If policing as we know it must die — as has been forcefully demanded by protesters worldwide — then what will replace it? Tim Wise, in his thought-provoking article…