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…
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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…
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…
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…
Belonging: A Daughter’s Search for Identity Through Loss and Love by Michelle Miller I never expected Michelle Miller’s new book Belonging to affect me so deeply. On the day…
Deconstructing Racism: A Path Toward Lasting Change by Barbara Major and Joseph Barndt by Orissa Arend The book is new; but the authors’ involvement with my church is not.…
What can The Road to Damascus teach us about White Supremacy? By Orissa Arend White supremacy is a term that has come into the public discourse in the last…
A Moon Landrieu Story by Orissa Arend, author of Showdown in Desire: The Black Panthers Take a Stand in New Orleans I want to add a story to…
A Pillar of Justice and Beyond Five years after its inception, Justice and Beyond (J&B), shifted from a coalition founded and led by two men – Dr. Dwight Webster…
A meditation on continuity and the long view by Orissa Arend I recently stumbled on to the last day of an Undoing Racism workshop presented by the People’s Institute…
by Orissa Arend The Last Slave Ship by Ben Raines (Simon and Schuster,2022) is a true story. It begins with the fatuous bet by an Alabama plantation owner. He…