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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Trump’s effort to terminate Lisa Cook is a ‘shameful abuse of executive power’
President Trump’s attempt to fire Lisa Cook — a highly experienced economist and trailblazing Black woman — from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors is another example of his shameful abuse of executive power. After criticizing and threatening Fed Chair Jerome Powell for months but taking no action, Trump has turned his partisan assault on…
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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
Georgia Justice Project’s work to enfranchise voters receives SPLC grant
Last year, the Georgia Justice Project (GJP) began placing yard signs around the state with a simple message: “Felony sentence complete? You can vote.” A man driving past a gas station in Conyers saw the sign, pulled over and immediately phoned GJP. “He’s like, ‘Is this true?’” said Ann Colloton, policy and outreach coordinator for…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
From Katrina to Today
Katrina revealed the devastating consequences of neglect; now, we must ensure that our policies reflect a commitment to justice, equity and resilience.” Hurricane Katrina was more than a natural disaster; it was a moment that exposed the deep systemic inequities in Louisiana’s infrastructure, governance, and social policies. The storm’s aftermath highlighted racial and economic disparities,…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Abandoned
Realizing they had been abandoned, panic began to set in for those trapped in their cells.” New Orleans once had a jail large enough to house a small town. It was built to keep the city safe — until Hurricane Katrina exposed otherwise. Most jails and prisons throughout the South have two things in common.…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Can Hurricanes Discriminate?
The areas damaged by Hurricane Katrina generally had higher percentages of Black residents, higher percentages of renter households, and higher poverty rates compared to undamaged areas.” Disasters do not discriminate. Or do they? Storms do not make landfall with animus, nor do they decide to strike certain communities because of bias. However, our ability to…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Portraits of a City Reclaimed
As the Atlantic birthed and the Gulf of Mexico nurtured Hurricane Katrina, I was embarking on a new chapter of life. With my elementary school years coming to a close, I braced for the growing pains of adolescence — a turbulent time even under normal circumstances. Within a week of the new school year, this…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Emmett Till’s sacrifice, memory invoked on 70th anniversary of his murder
Content warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of violence. Reader discretion is advised. Civil rights activist Flonzie Brown Wright was 12 years old in the summer of 1955 and living in Madison County, Mississippi, when her two cousins, ages 15 and 17, came down from Chicago to visit their grandmother in the neighboring, more rural…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Homeland Security deploys white nationalist, anti-immigrant graphics to recruit
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is using white nationalist imagery and language to recruit new employees and arrest immigrants. A Hatewatch review of DHS social media posts and web content found that the federal agency utilizes white nationalist and anti-immigrant images and slogans in recruitment materials. In addition, while recruitment images feature white people…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Learning from disaster: The lessons of Hurricane Katrina, 20 years later
The images that come to mind for most Americans of Hurricane Katrina are many and varied. Whether it is the helicopters rescuing people off their rooftops, residents wading through the flooded city in search of shelter or then-President George W. Bush looking down on the city as he flew over, the photos and video only…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Impact of Trump’s One Big Ugly Budget Bill on Alabama
Families across Alabama are working hard to stay afloat — paying more for everything from groceries to rent to health care. President Trump’s One Big Ugly Budget Bill (OBBB) guts basic needs programs for low-income people — cutting $1 trillion in Medicaid and Affordable Care Act marketplace spending, along with $187 billion in SNAP —…
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