Love Dr Rob
Introducing Our Latest Contributor Relationship Coach Robert Nolden Love Dr. Rob Robert Nolden is quickly becoming one of the nation’s leading Relationship Coaches. After experiencing a difficult divorce, Robert decided…
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.…
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HURRICANE KATRINA FACTS Hurricane Katrina was the largest and 3rd strongest hurricane ever recorded to make landfall in the US. In New Orleans, the levees were designed for Category 3,…
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,…
Wearing A Mask Is Really Important
I Might Assault You – If Only In My Mind by Kenneth Cooper So we’re at this church for a coronavirus version graduation. Everybody is spread out 6 feet apart,…
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…
From The Tribune: THE CHANGE WE’RE LOOKING FOR IS IN OUR POCKETS
With mounting protests against police brutality, calls to defund the police and to dismantle systemic, structural racism has also come the resurgence of an old, but ever-important call for Black…
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…
What to know about Juneteenth
The emancipation holiday By Daniella Silva Juneteenth, the commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States, will be celebrated by Black Americans this Saturday amid a national reckoning…