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"A Perfect Storm: The Takeover of New Orleans Public Schools" Part Two — The Illusion of Choice A Perfect Storm: The Takeover of New Orleans Public Schools is a series of short videos, that reveals the real story [...]

Closed for Good — The Story Letty and Angel live with their four children in Humboldt Park. Their youngest son, Christopher, is “learning to be a regular kindergartener” and receives special education at Lafayette Elementary’s renowned program. Janiquia is in 4th grade, and [...]

Our purpose is to love and love some more. To fail to love would be a mortal crime. We don’t know what the future holds in store, but surely this: we will each run out of time. So we are charged to love beneath the sun [...]

Jen Sorensen is a nationally-syndicated political cartoonist whose work has appeared in The Progressive, The Nation, Daily Kos, Austin Chronicle, NPR, Ms., Politico, and many other publications. The recipient of the 2014 Herblock Prize and a 2013 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, she tweets at [...]

my breath catches in my throat as the continuity of life is abruptly disrupted. again. as i sat down to write a poem about my slain brothers and sisters. (and sisters). another was murdered. i watched live streams of black souls gathering in berkeley, missouri [...]

   ~ For Chris Brown Rape doesn’t happen to men Not even boys if you know how To spin your tale & feather it up You’re from that special, faraway place It’s different in the country Just couldn’t say no to it Kind of, like, hot [...]

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WE MUST BE THE NEW GUARDS: OPEN LETTER TO WHITE POETS "But when a long train of abuses and usurpation, pursing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw [...]

Two days before starting classes at Vatterott College, a child was killed in our city. “He wanted to own his own business. He’d say, ‘Let’s make something out of nothing,’" said Gerard Fuller who knew the lad since the second grade. Each had attended Pine [...]