Voices from the Gulf

Undeterred by the blazing sun and high humidity of a mid-August afternoon in Biloxi, Mississippi, Tuat Nguyen and Bien Do moved nimbly around their shrimp boat, making last-minute preparations to leave for Lake Borgne, where the Louisiana shrimp season would open in a few days.

Climate and Environment

Organizing and Engagement

Gulf Coast Solidarity with the People's Climate March

As over 300,000 people took to the streets of New York City for the People's Climate March last Sunday, events across the Gulf Coast brought people together closer to home, in solidarity and support

Message from the People's Climate March

The last five days have been a bullet ride. So many great events, panels and activities, ceremonies, catching up with old friends, meeting new allies, walking with an estimated 410,000 caring souls for the People’s Climate March, and finally, flooding the streets of Wall Street.

Climate and Environment

Race and Racial Justice

An American Nightmare: The Wedgewood Community

Originally Posted on Life Support Project. “My husband died of renal failure, my neighbor died of renal failure, my other neighbor behind me died of cancer. The lady over there, her granddaughter’s six months pregnant, and was just diagnosed with breast cancer. They live right here at the pit.”

We’re standing in the parking lot of the Marie K. Young Community Center in the Wedgewood community of Pensacola, Florida, a quiet African-American neighborhood.

Climate and Environment

Education and Human Development

Race and Racial Justice

Opposition to Toxic School Site in New Orleans Continues, as School District Moves Ahead

On Wednesday, advocates and neighbors protested the plan to build a new school on the site of the former Booker T. Washington High, because of concerns over toxic contamination. The site was home to the Silver City / Clio Street Dump from the 1890s through the 1930s.

Culture and Traditions

Africatown Notables

My city of Mobile, Alabama is a charming and picturesque Southern community. With its large antebellum homes and vast array of tall pine trees and massive oak trees overhanging Springhill Avenue, Mobile is a city that can rival any Southern city for beauty and scenery. However, the creative minds of the people of Mobile are one of the unique characteristics that elevate the city of Mobile above other Southern cities.

Climate and Environment

Railroaded! A Tale of Two Communities

“What is being proposed is dumping a problem from one neighborhood to another without actually solving the issue,” says Graham Bosworth of a proposal to move and expand hazardous rail traffic out of Old Metarie and into his Hollygrove Dixon community in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Climate and Environment

Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast

Photo: Mississippi Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina hit us here on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Featured Project

"Katrina/Sandy” brings together stories about crisis and renewal

Katrina spawned a whirlwind of creative storytelling. While I worked for eight years to finish a documentary I started before the storm, I worked with others to find new ways to document community change.

Climate and Environment

Port Arthur Texas – Climate Justice Hits Home

by Hilton Kelley. Port Arthur, Texas, my home, sits on the Louisiana-Texas border on the Gulf Coast, right in the heart of this Texas energy hub. Port Arthur also is home to four major oil refineries, four chemical plants, one petroleum coke plant, and an international chemical waste incineration facility.