Like many of you, I watched the video of the Baton Rouge police killing Alton Sterling. There's no two ways around this--it was a flat out execution. I would say I am shocked, but of course I am not shocked. The police have been executing...
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The United States now officially has climate change refugees that the government is paying to move. One of those grants, $48 million for Isle de Jean Charles, is something new:.
When David Vitter isn't missing votes to visit prostitutes, he's a paid man of the oil and gas industry. Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), who last month won a spot in.
We can learn lessons from the mass murders that are a monthly event in this nation. We learned, as a nation, from Dylann Roof, that the Confederate flag is a symbol of horrible evil that inspires racist violence. It has since come down at the...
I had a whole bunch of stuff to write about today and then it didn't happen for a number of reasons. But I still found time to watch Les Blank's.
The fact that a wealthy white man would buy an antebellum Louisiana sugar plantation and turn it into a no punches pulled museum on slavery, the first museum dedicated wholly.
Louisiana is a really well-run state: Public college and university campuses in Louisiana could close if the state ends up cutting $300 million or more out of its higher education budget during the next fiscal cycle. Legislators and higher education officials said its college systems...
Now that one book is in the can and the other is under review, I have time to read again. So I will review the recent books I get through.
Mary Landrieu mentioned the history of racism in the South. Naturally, Louisiana Republicans were outraged that she would do so. Obviously, like all Democrats, Mary Landrieu is the real racist.
This probably won't surprise you, but Restaurant Opportunity Centers United, the labor organization fighting for labor rights in the restaurant industry, has released a report showing the vast racial disparities between whites and African-Americans in the restaurants of several cities: The study from the Restaurant...
A minor detail in this article on the history of Tabasco sauce, but one that is telling about how, when we are talking about "innovators," we forget who actually does.
The energy industry continues its war upon the people and ecology of Louisiana: Last summer, an independent government authority responsible for flood protection for the New Orleans area sued more.