"I'm hopeful that five years from now we’ll see reduced incarceration rates, more community services, and increased political power for low-income communities and communities of color in the Deep South," says Dana Kaplan of the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana in this interview.
Posts Tagged “Hurricane Katrina”
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Today we remember the people whose lives were lost or inalterably changed when the levees failed in New Orleans five years ago. We also thank those who have dedicated their lives to rebuilding the city and its communities since.
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Stanley Greene and Kadir van Lohuizen, both Open Society Katrina Media Fellows, launched a mobile exhibition of large-scale mural photographs called Those Who Fell Through the Cracks.
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This weekend will mark five years since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast and the levees broke in New Orleans. As the date approaches, we remember and mourn the many lives and homes that were lost. We also honor the inspiring work of so many in New Orleans to rebuild and transform this...
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Now is the time for New Orleans Mayor Landrieu to signal a clean break from the policies (or lack thereof) of his predecessors, and of longstanding but ill-serving local laws relating to culture.
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The Vera Institute of Justice is working with New Orleans city government and community leaders to help reinvent—rather than rebuild—the city’s criminal justice system. We asked Jon Wool, Director of Vera’s New Orleans office, about his work.
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A reporter offers a timely reminder to defend against "Katrina Shorthand"—the tendency to describe 8/29 as a hurricane, obscuring the fact that poorly designed levee walls caused the flooding in most of New Orleans.
Posted in: Governance & Accountability, United States
Topics: Hurricane Katrina, levee failures, Mark Moseley, New Orleans, Ray Lang, The Lens
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In 2006, the Open Society Foundations launched a one-time investigative journalism fellowship to promote a national conversation on inequality in America following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. I asked a few photography fellows to reflect on their images and how life has changed for the people...
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Ann Beeson, executive director of U.S. Programs at the Open Society Foundations, discusses why the organization is dedicating its resources to support the work of many of the city's most dedicated, creative advocates for social change and social justice.
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Timolynn Sams, director of a network of neighborhood associations in New Orleans, shares a simple lesson: in times of crisis and rebuilding the surest investment we can make is in people.