My mom showed her support by bringing me a sweater.
At first, the writer’s mom wasn’t sure if she should support her daughter’s human-rights work. “She was very very cautious. It was really hard.”
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Opinion
Perspectives and reflections that challenge, question, and inspire.
The looming return of Jim Crow to Louisiana, America’s second-Blackest state
The U.S. Supreme Court appears poised to gut Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the central provision that has protected minority voters from discriminatory maps and election systems for 60 years.
To lead us, you must listen to us
A message to all city leaders and adults from “The Seven That Make It Happen,” a youth council of Black teenagers ages 16 and 17, who are detained pre-trial in Orleans Parish’s juvenile jail
The farcical case against Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for protest reporting
The Justice Department is weaponizing a law intended to protect those seeking abortions to punish reporters covering anti-ICE activism.
Fight the corruption that led to the Louisiana datacenter in Rayville
The Public Service Commission approved the power plants for the datacenter project by a 4-1 margin, sending a signal nationwide to all prospective datacenter companies: ‘Come to Louisiana, where they sell their people out for pennies on the dollar.’
Wind, innovation, and clean communities are smart policy, not security threats
“Offshore wind development in the Gulf would not replace oil and gas jobs,” writes U.S. Rep. Troy Carter. “It would build on them, using the same skills Louisiana workers already possess, while reducing harmful emissions that disproportionately impact frontline communities."
EPA blind spots leave workers unprotected from ethylene oxide’s cancer risks
Frequent contact with the carcinogen ethylene oxide can boost the odds of developing cancer up to 60 times — risk levels that should raise red flags in Louisiana, which produces 20% of the nation’s ethylene oxide emissions within its 85-mile industrial corridor, known as Cancer Alley.
Why MISO’s 2026 grid analysis matters to Louisianans
The culprit in the May 2025 “loadshed event” in New Orleans was Louisiana’s under-developed electric grid. An upcoming grid analysis will identify grid weaknesses, its vulnerability to extreme weather – and solutions that will help us all plan for a more secure future.
Will New Orleans face fewer, but more powerful storms?
Was the 2025 hurricane season a glimpse of of the future? Though Louisiana had a quiet season, an analysis of this year's storms in the Atlantic basin. points to a new trend—of more intense but less frequent hurricanes.
Will NOLA Public Schools fulfill its promise to the Leah Chase School community?
Leah Chase School, it seems, was never meant to exist—at least, not as a traditional public school. Less than two years later, NOLA Public Schools’ board members are debating whether to close it.
