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Forty Years and Counting

New Orleans        I was a couple of minutes late and walked into a speech by long time New Orleans community leader Beulah Laboistrie’s remarks about her decades of leadership in ACORN and now A Community Voice, which has arisen from the ashes of the organization in Louisiana, so I was looking sidelong at the [...]

Guerrilla Haikus

New Orleans The post-Katrina New Orleans is a wild and exciting place.  The appearance of “guerrilla haikus” is a good example.  The poetry may not be great shakes but the spirit soars.

An anonymous mother, who teaches English, at a local university, and her former Iraq war veteran photographer daughter, reclaim [...]

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