June 2011
2 posts
Michelle Alexander on Why Real Justice Means Fewer... →
This article came from Yes! Magazine, and can be accessed at http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/beyond-prisons/think-outside-the-bars
A white woman with gray hair pulled neatly into a bun raises her hand. She keeps it up, unwavering and rigid, as she waits patiently for her turn to speak. Finally, the microphone is passed to the back of the room, and she leaps to her feet. With an air of...
April 2011
13 posts
Study estimates that illegal immigrants paid... →
Afterbirthers Demand To See Obama's Placenta →
“”All the lives we could live, all the people we will never know, never...”
– Aleksandar Hermon
"Sponsored by state Sen. Stacey Campfield (R), who... →
“it is necessary that love itself be a work of art, and not the last resort of...”
– Vasconcelos, The Cosmic Race
Encounter at Howard-Tilton Memorial Library,...
Walking over to put a staple on my final paper for Black Youth Developmental Psychology, I saw a girl stapling her own paper with a shirt that said “Angola” at the top.
Thinking her shirt was supporting the Angola 3, innocent men held in solitary at an institutionalized 21st century slave plantation for almost 4 decades, I walked over to her. I was wearing an Angola 3 shirt I’d...
from the slatest- all language linked to one... →
another win for Virginia... jeeesusss →
See ya, Glenn! →
"Both Thomas and Scalia have produced what can... →
Another example of resources going to advance... →
To quote Jordan Flaherty, author of Floodlines, “’Bold art project’ leaves the neighborhood worse off than when it started. Is anyone surprised?”
April Fools a la Tulane Honors Department
To: Tulane Honors Juniors
From: Honors Deparment Dean
Subject: New Graduation Requirement
A rarely invoked rule allows the Director of the Honors Program to add elements to the requirements for graduation AT ANY TIME. I have decided that, for all the highly specialized, theoretical knowledge embodied in the Honors Thesis, there are other skills you ought to demonstrate in order to graduate from...
No, BP oil spill isnt a done issue →
Really, BP? Ever heard of backing up your data? →
Sentences given out in Henry Glover case →
Long overdue, but still not enough. These sentences dont do anything to address the systemic issues that allowed this horrific crime to happen.
March 2011
4 posts
February 2011
6 posts
dive bars in lakeview on a sunday night
following the underwhelming defeat of ben roethlisberger in the superbowl, my night randomly headed to lakeview to two little dive bars i’d 1. never been to and 2. never heard of. after two and a half years in the incredibly segregated new orleans (“people come together to party during mardi gras and that’s it” my professor of black youth developmental psychology said...
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welcome to zombieland, kids: first thoughts upon...
When i first arrived in new orleans four years ago, driving what would soon become a very familiar stretch down I-10 headed into the city, my sister (who was currently residing in the city) pointed out the huge and abandoned Six Flags amusement park, looming over a stretch of otherwise barren area. I, of course, was fascinated; there is something beautiful and haunting about abandoned places...