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Perspectives and reflections that challenge, question, and inspire.

There’s healing to be done in New Orleans, say descendants of Homer Plessy and John H. Ferguson

by Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson, Plessy and Ferguson Initiative April 10, 2024 Updated April 30, 2024

Paintbrush, iPad, or Glock?

by Judge Arthur L. Hunter Jr.* April 1, 2024 Updated April 1, 2024

Let’s make plans together about the future of our beloved City Park

by Sabria Earin and Dayo Akinlana March 30, 2024 Updated March 30, 2024

Entergy’s quiet power moves 

by Logan Atkinson Burke March 26, 2024 Updated March 29, 2024

New criminal-justice laws bring unforeseen consequences

by Susan Hutson, Orleans Parish Sheriff March 25, 2024 Updated March 25, 2024

Senate Bill 8, which is now law, favors tyranny over justice

The bill gives only the governor – not an independent board – the power to hand-pick the State Public Defender to run Louisiana’s public-defense system.
by Malcolm Jenkins March 23, 2024 Updated March 23, 2024

Don’t jeopardize CPRA’s success

by Sandy Rosenthal and H.J. Bosworth, Jr. March 19, 2024 Updated March 19, 2024

Senate Bill 3 most likely to affect teens charged with petty crimes.

by Aiden Lesley February 28, 2024 Updated February 28, 2024

After America Street, let’s work toward solutions.

by Trashanda Grayes and Arthur Hunter November 6, 2023 Updated November 5, 2023

Proposed cuts to City Year program would do most harm to at-risk kids in under-resourced schools

by Arielle McConduit Ashley and Dr. Luz Randolph October 30, 2023 Updated October 31, 2023

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