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Author: Lydia Y. Nichols

The World, the Flesh, and the Devil: a Lenten meditation on COVID-19 in New Orleans

March 19, 2020 Updated March 19, 2020
"Whenever we get to the here-on-out, will the decisions we make be based on the hope that a pandemic doesn’t happen again? Or will they be based on the reality that it can, with the understanding that no one should be in such desperate positions as some of us are now in?"

By what right does Take ‘Em Down NOLA get to tell Zulu what to do?

March 1, 2019 Updated November 7, 2019
Threatening to pull the club's parade permit is an all-too-familiar white supremacist tactic.

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