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New Orleans has been rated number three in the world for brutal, homicidal violence.
Tags: crime, Helen Hill, Jessica Hawk, New Orleans, poverty, Race, violent crime
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Our “exile” in Cincinnati provided much-needed contrast with New Orleans.
Tags: cincinnatti, comparison, contrast, cost of living, Evacuation, Gulf Coast, housing, Houston, Hurricane Bertha, hurricane ike, Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, ohio, poverty, Race, se loisiana, socioeconomic issues, Texas, wetlands
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Hearing On Housing
August 12, 2008 at 1:25 pm By: Loki Post a comment
A highly anticipated legal event will be putting discriminatory housing practices under the microscope.
Tags: discrimination, Fair Housing Act of 1968, FEMA, Gordan Quan, Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center, housing, Housing Committee for the City of Houston, housing crisis, Houston, Howard University School of Law, Hurricane Katrina, Inc., James Perry, John Payton, NAACP, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, National Bar Association's 83rd Annual Convention, National Fair Housing Alliance, Okianer Christian Dark, Race, renting, segregation, Shanna Smith, Texas, The National Commission on Fair Housing and Equal Oppor, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
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Racism in the rural south makes for hot news, and I predict a media explosion over the death of Baron “Scooter” Pikes in Winnfield, Louisiana.
Tags: death, deep south, excessive force, louisiana, police, Race, racism, rural, Scooter Pikes, taser, Winnfield
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