Repair the Breach NOLA: Year One in Review
A Bold Beginning Repair the Breach NOLA just celebrated its first birthday. We are an interfaith collective based in New Orleans, working toward reparations through coordinated action. The movement began…
The Malaga Ship: A Story of the Middle Passage and Maine’s Hidden Role in Slavery
The Malaga Ship Performance Storytelling can be a multipurpose endeavor. The depth and breadth of those purposes came alive on April 11th when the six-foot-three inch Antonio Rocha, who is…
A Passion for Reparations: A Tale of Three Women
By Orissa Arend A Mission Rooted in History Martha Wickett and Jean Ewing, both in their 80s, founded Repair the Breach NOLA, a church-based reparations effort. Their inspiration came from…
Repair the Breach NOLA: How New Orleans Art Illuminates the Path to Reparations”
Introduction to Repair the Breach NOLA Repair the Breach NOLA is a grassroots, church-based reparations initiative founded by two inspiring white women in their eighties. Their goal is to address…
New Orleans Churches and Reparations: Lessons from an Episcopal Summit
The Hidden Stories of Oppression The Rev. Lindsey Ardrey grew up surrounded by storytellers. However, there were some stories of harm and racial oppression that remained hidden. Elders whispered about…
Churches in New Orleans: Will They Repair the Racial Breach?
A church reparations planning group began its work in New Orleans earlier this summer. The group’s purpose is for predominantly white churches to reflect on their history and scripture, and…
Can New Orleans Churches Lead the Way in Reparations?
Will churches in New Orleans step up to bridge the long-standing divide between Black and white communities? A movement for reparations within New Orleans churches seems like the ideal starting…
Revolutionary History Version 3
Revolutionary History: Lost and Found, and Lost Again How the Desire Street “Panther mural,” painted in 1970 to chronicle Black history for residents of the Desire housing development, met its…
Revolutionary History: Lost and Found and Lost Again
On this recent July 5 my curiosity got the better of me. Art writer Nikki Cormaci emailed me the day before, out of the blue, to say she was looking…
A Day at Criminal Court in New Orleans
Watching Court on a Monday Morning By Orissa Arend On Monday mornings I step into a completely unfamiliar world – the criminal courthouse on Tulane and Broad. I am a…