Memories of a black boyhood and my delight in the Confederate ‘stars and bars’
"I bought a Black Liberation Flag and hung it in my cube above my rack, as we called our beds. Someone wasn’t pleased."
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Opinion
Perspectives and reflections that challenge, question, and inspire. This category features thought-provoking essays and commentary from writers, community members, and photographers offering insight into the issues, ideas, and experiences that shape New Orleans and beyond.
Levees vs. logic: Rigging federal flood insurance rates is dumb and dangerous
Don't be fooled. Average safety is not the same thing as actual safety.
Monumental decision: Who should be honored in place of the Confederates?
We should have the courage to acknowledge more of our history than what’s safe and cuddly and good for tourism.
Scramble for variances already making a mockery of the city’s new zoning code
The new CZO could end up being little more than a ream of wasted paper.
BP settlement: Tens of millions for lawyers, not nearly enough for the coast
Why did BP's stock rise after the settlement was reached: payments are low and slow — except to lawyers.
Case against New Orleans laborer shows a secretive ICE, lacking accountability
Judges exercise unbridled and arbitrary power over defendants with few legal protections.
A letter to the next Dylann Roof
Sure you've been screwed, white boy, but it wasn't by black people.
Preservation pit bull Bill Borah says new zoning code should trigger Master Plan update
In amending the Charter voters expressed disenchantment with pre-Katrina's ad hoc, special-interest-driven planning process.
Politics of passing: Rachel Dolezal would have had an easier time of it in old New Orleans
Did a socially established white person ever assume a black identity, long-term, in the era before Rachel Dolezal? Apparently Voodoo queen Marie Laveau's lover did just that.
Equity, transparency undercut by holdouts against OneApp school admissions process
It's time to level the playing field and provide a uniform application process for all OPSB charters.
