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‘Servitude’

The author, who is also associate editor for the Angolite magazine, won an honorable mention for this essay in the 2024 PEN Prison Writing Awards.

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Oil and gaffe

Prominent oil-backed politicians claim that fossil fuels support Louisiana’s economy and that community activists are the problem. The facts say otherwise.

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