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Language Access in Bulbancha

Unless the city provides readily accessible translation and interpretation, true civic participation is impossible for New Orleanians who speak little or no English, the writers say.
by M.G. Olson and Rocio Aguilar May 17, 2024 Updated May 20, 2024

Tiếp cận Ngôn ngữ ở Bulbancha

by M.G. Olson and Rocio Aguilar May 17, 2024 Updated May 20, 2024

Acceso al Idioma en Bulbancha

A menos que la ciudad proporcione traducción e interpretación realmente accesibles, la participación cívica plena es imposible para los habitantes que hablan poco o nada de inglés en Nueva Orleans, dicen los autores.
by M.G. Olson and Rocio Aguilar May 17, 2024 Updated May 20, 2024

On the heels of staff non-renewals, Lycée Français teachers win union vote

The win came shortly after a group of teachers were not offered contracts for the next school year, a move that some saw as an unfair effort to undermine the union drive – and possibly jeopardize the integrity of Lycée Français for years to come.
by Marta Jewson May 13, 2024 Updated May 13, 2024

Behind The Lens episode 236: ‘An energy company deciding subject matter’

Sara Sneath on LSU's unusual relationship with the oil and gas industry. Marta Jewson on Lycée Français charter school's union drive.
by Carolyne Heldman May 10, 2024 Updated May 10, 2024

Tulane and Port NOLA using arrests to silence Palestine protesters

by Serena Sojic-Borne May 8, 2024 Updated May 8, 2024

EPA in the Crosshairs

While industry proponents still see the EPA’s administrator as their foe — deserving of Louisiana prison time, one says — environmental groups say that the agency’s lagging standards lead to increasingly polluted wastewater.
by Delaney Dryfoos May 3, 2024 Updated May 6, 2024

Conditions d’emploi: unionizing at Lycée Français

After Lycée Français teachers began working toward a union, demanding better working conditions, the school’s CEO warned that a union could change the school’s culture. But to the school’s French national teachers, unions are central to the very culture the school emulates.
by Marta Jewson May 1, 2024 Updated May 7, 2024

Fess: The SongByrd of N.O.

by Mizani Ball May 1, 2024 Updated May 4, 2024

Deon Haywood: From flames came new dreams

“Today, 12 years after the fire, 35 years after Women With A Vision’s founding, our world is on fire,” writes Deon Haywood, in this adapted foreword for the newly released book, “Fire Dreams: Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South.”
by Deon Haywood April 30, 2024 Updated May 7, 2024

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