What You Should Be Watching Instead of the Throne Monday, August 08, 2011 10:17 PM By Jasiri X This ain’t a Jay Z, Kanye or “Watch the Throne” hate post. I’m listening to the album right now and it’s pretty good. But while we’re caught in the hype of 2 of Hip-Hop’s biggest stars coming [...]
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An on-air and online investigation into questionable police shootings by the New Orleans Police Department in the wake of Katrina. 1: The Torched Corpse By Brendan McCarthy and Laura Maggi, staff writers Times-Picayune Published: Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 11:45 PM Updated: Thursday, November 11, 2010, 7:13 AM Former New Orleans police officer David Warren fired his personal assault rifle at an unarmed man who was trying to run away, his partner told a federal jury Wednesday in the first [...] Laura Maggi, The Times-Picayune Published: Monday, November 08, 2010, 7:37 AM Updated: Monday, November 08, 2010, 9:31 AM Two years after they launched the first in a series of civil rights probes into the New Orleans Police Department, which have resulted in charges against 20 officers in four separate cases to date, federal prosecutors will [...] Nearly five years after Hurricane Katrina, federal prosecutors have charged a white man with federal hate crimes for his role in the racially motivated shooting of three black men in the aftermath of the storm. The five-count indictment accuses Roland Bourgeois of plotting to defend his Algiers Point neighborhood in New Orleans from “outsiders” including [...] Democracy Now!’s Anjali Kamat visits the town of Phoenix, Louisiana on the east bank of Plaquemines Parish, an area that was devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. She speaks to Reverend Tyronne Edwards, a pastor and longtime community activist who spearheaded efforts to rebuild the largely African American fishing community after Katrina. In the aftermath [...] Haiti: An Unwelcome Katrina Redux by Cynthia McKinney President Obama’s response to the tragedy in Haiti has been robust in military deployment and puny in what the Haitians need most: food; first responders and their specialized equipment; doctors and medical facilities and equipment; and engineers, heavy equipment, and heavy movers. Sadly, President Obama is dispatching [...] |
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