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People who do their best to survive and thrive within a government should not shoulder substantial burdens from natural disasters without governmental help. In an unexpected pivot to the positive, the recent budget agreement—that concluded the governmental shutdown—includes a special provision that provides a clean slate for four HBCUs severely impacted by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

It is clear that Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, thinks we are all idiots. This was made even clearer in a recent clip from CNN’s news coverage of Trump’s recent comments about President Obama, Hillary Clinton and ISIS. In the video, his spokesperson, Katrina Pierson, literally butchered the actual history and origins of the War in Afghanistan […]

Selma director Ava DuVernay and star David Oyelowo have joined forces to develop a Hurricane Katrina drama.

Did Charter Schools Save New Orleans After Katrina? Naima Ramos-Chapman, Colorlines | August 31, 2010 Since Hurricane Katrina many public schools were dismantled and turned into private charters. Five years after this terrible storm, education overhaul has thrilled politicians and the media to the extent that some have chosen to call Katrina a “blessing” to […]

CNN | August 26, 2010 CNN’s Soledad O’Brien and filmmaker Spike Lee look at life post-Katrina through the eyes of children.

Anxiety still rampant in Katrina kids, study says Janet McConnaughey and Lindsey Tanner, Associated Press | August 24, 2010 Hurricane Katrina’s floodwaters haven’t stopped rippling through the minds of children on the Gulf Coast. Studies suggest that five years later, the accumulated stress of instability and poverty—and government neglect—has shown up in families’ emotional and […]

A nursing book was recalled in 2017 because of the racist way that it discussed pain; how it is felt, how it is interpreted, and how it should be understood by physicians, and therefore, how it should ultimately be treated. This entry, entitled “Cultural Differences in Response to Pain,” included sections on “Arabs/Muslims,” “Asians,” “Blacks,” […]

 by Imade Nibokun Black people invented mental health treatment before the “pray it away” stigma and the white supremacy that produced it. While Black folks continue to address the stigmas attached to mental illness, we must also acknowledge that Black mental health practitioners existed first. The first known physician in history is an Egyptian architect […]

by Donnie Moreland  One of the most haunting images to come out of the Reconstruction Era, for me, is that of the 1872 Harper Weekly engraving entitled “Visit of the Ku Klux.” It’s a crude image, taken up mostly by the figures of a Black family—a mother, her daughter and an elderly man over a fireplace […]

by Donnie Moreland My crushes, in high school, were all white girls. I used to fantasize about asking them out, kissing them, fucking them. It was about the only way by which I judged my social value—by how many of them I was of interest to. In fact, the first girl to ever hear the […]

by Jamila Dawn Mitchell A fighter for equity and progress in Houston, Texas has taken their activism to City Hall. This time, as a candidate. Community organizer, Ashton P. Woods, has officially filed his candidacy for Houston’s At-Large City Council seat, representing some of the City’s politically active residents who continue to be at the […]

According to Nola.com, the Orleans Parish School board voted 5-2 to establish InspireNOLA Charter Schools as the operator of McDonough 35 Senior High School, which was established in 1917 as the first Black public school in New Orleans. This vote makes New Orleans the first major city in America with a charter school exclusive school […]