Bridge The Gulf's blog

Daniel Nguyen works with the Mary Queen of Vietnam Community Development Corporation, which has been providing technical assistance for folks affected by the BP oil disaster. [...Read more]

Rebecca Templeton is the executive director of Bayou Grace Community Services, a nonprofit in Terrebonne Parish, La. [...Read more]

By Jeffrey Buchanan, Oxfam America. Crossposted from Facing South. Faith and fishing: two cen [...Read more]

Bridge The Gulf contributors and advisors Bryan Parras and Derrick Evans arrived in London today, to attend the BP shareholders meeting.  Here's the press release they put out: [...Read more]

After the state of Arizona banned ethnic studies, Tucson school district followed suit and pulled a number of books, mostly by [...Read more]

By Max Gerson, Sierra Club Louisiana Intern. Originally posted in the Sierra Club's Compass.  It's typically considered bad form to kick an enemy when he's down. [...Read more]

By Pam Nath. Sometime around 5:30 a.m., on March 1, 2012, an off-duty policeman working for a private neighborhood security force stopped two young black men driving in a predominantly white neighborhood in New Orleans. The officer called for back up. [...Read more]

By Ingrid Chapman, crossposted from Justice Roars. I arrived in Alabama 2 days before HB 56 went into effect with the original plan of being here for 2 weeks. That turned into 3 months. I have just returned for 6 more months to work with the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice. [...Read more]

By Mia White, crossposted from Ms Magazine. An hour’s drive east of New Orleans along the Gulf of Mexico, there thrives the largely unknown historic black settlement of North Gulfport and Turkey Creek, Mi [...Read more]

By Hannah Adams, crossposted from The Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center Blog.  A little over four months ago a federal judge upheld most parts of the nation’s harshest anti-immigration law to date- Alabama’s infamous House Bill 56 (HB 56). [...Read more]