Jonathan Kozol rails against a public school system that, 50 years after Brown v. Board of Education, is still deeply -- and shamefully -- segregated.

http://www.livejournal.com/community/debunkingwhite/258220.html

Debunking the rumors circulating around the 'nets about the NOLA displaced.

http://www.wiseass.org/files/katrina1.swf

Warning: graphic images.

from poor_planning

Transgender evacuee survives all obstacles, including her arrest for taking a shower.

( HoustonPBS revises its schedule in response to Katrina and her aftermath )

Neil Gaiman points to an article on science fiction and the Katrina disaster by Bidisha Banerjee, an editorial assistant at Slate.

As Americans struggled to grasp what was unfolding in New Orleans, the word "unimaginable" recurred frequently-even though the catastrophe had been imagined, and envisioned, many times. Thirty years ago, science ( Read more... )

as seen on sparrow77
Money for floods: poverty, humanity, and the social contract

Also, Hurricane Katrina-Our experiences by Larry Bradshaw and Lorrie Beth Slonsky

I have been glued to, reading and watching and reading and watching, with very little in the way of words.

Lost in the Flood: Why no mention of race or class in TV's Katrina coverage? ( Read more... )

thanks for the heads-up, kisha

http://www.livejournal.com/community/blackfolk/2420240.html

I keep writing and erasing, writing and erasing. I can't believe New Orleans is underwater.


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