Voices of the Gulf

It’s a pungent, nauseating smell, so strong you can literally taste it.  For nearly two years, it has blanketed the Eight Mile neighborhood of Prichard, Alabama, a predominantly African-American community just outside of Mobile. [...Read more]

By Andrew Whitehurst, crossposted from Gulf Restoration Network's blog.On May 3rd Governor Phil Br [...Read more]

As I have mentioned before, the last few weeks have been challenging for BP. [...Read more]

The shooting that maimed twenty people on Mother’s Day in New Orleans has been classified as “strictly an act of street violence” by the FBI. This hurts my heart. Calling the violence inflicted upon our lives “street violence” disregards the precious value we hold as human beings. [...Read more]

On Sunday morning, around 10 am, I posted this image (right) and accompanying text on Instagram: “I was starting to get salty about having to work on Mother’s Day. Then I got some perspective handed to me real fresh & simple.”

The flyer advertises a "free support group for children of homicide victims." [...Read more]

“I love this river,” explained Sharon Day during a ceremony held May 3rd, at Fort Jackson in Plaquemines Parish. The occasion drew to a close a more than 1,700 mile journey of the Mississippi River Walkers 2013 – a group of indigenous men and women who walked the length of the second most polluted river in the United States. [...Read more]

On May Day in New Orleans, immigrants and their supporters marched for just immigration reform and an end to deportations.

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The last few weeks in the media world have been particularly damaging to BP. Despite their best efforts to muffle the continuing effects of the 2010 Deepwater Drilling Disaster - a muffling which has focused around a multi-million dollar, three-year, non-stop ad campaign, the poor little fellas are suffering from an assault by the truth of the matter. [...Read more]

Where are you from, originally? This simple question was the topic of a discussion at Community Book Center in New Orleans last week, and prompted a sweeping conversation about race, class, displacement, and what it means to be from this rapidly changing city with deep roots. [...Read more]

For many of us, April has been a very challenging month. Looking back from today, this country has seen a resurgence of fear, violence and racism. [...Read more]