Crossposted from Isle de Jean Charles News. Greetings, I am the Chief of a small Indian community, the Isle de Jean Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw.
Bishop Anthony Thompson is executive director of the Kingdom Community Development Corporation, and a member of the Coalition of African American Communities (COAAC). He recently spoke with Bridge The Gulf and the Institute for Southern Studies for the report Troubled Waters: Two Years After the BP
Roberta Avila is the executive director of the STEPS Coalition, which includes 30 social justice organizations on the Mississippi Gulf Coast that came together after Hurricane Katrina. Avila spoke with Bridge The Gulf and the Institute for Southern Studies for the report
Two years after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and set off a region-wide crisis with national impacts, the BP disaster has fallen off the nation's radar.
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:
After the state of Arizona banned ethnic studies, Tucson school district followed suit and pulled a number of books, mostly by Latino authors, from classrooms. I