Author: blksista

Jordan Flaherty of Left Turn has written some excellent articles about Katrina and its aftermath on New Orleans and other Louisiana residents.  This is from his most recent article, dated November 4: White New Orleans is...

Thought people would like to know how these musicians are doing.  Especially since many were afraid Fats Domino had drowned during the levee flooding. Two stories are dated mid-October from the BBC and MS-NBC, and the one...

Warped wooden floors and ruined desks have been stripped out of Xavier University’s main campus building. Its 4,000 students are scattered across the nation. Half the faculty and staff have been laid off. The...

This perspective was written by Loretta J. Ross, on September 11, 2005.  Note that more than two months have elapsed since her comments were registered.  Ross is a national coordinator for SisterSong Women of Color...

But Delia “Sis” Holloway, 82, lay there dead, two months after her sister, Deborah “Bodie” Fisher, 85, had expired after she was forced to evacuate their home for safety in Texas. The madness continues....