Desiree Evans

October 10, 2008 - Indigenous communities across areas of Louisiana hit hardest

October 9, 2008 - According to observers, Greenville, S.C. today looks like a ghost town.

October 9, 2008 - USA Today reports that polling places in six battleground states, including many with large minority populations, could be overwhelmed on Nov. 4.

October 9, 2008 - Tens of thousands of voters in at least six key states - Colorado, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Nevada and North Carolina - may have been improperly purged from voter registration rolls.

October 9, 2008 - More than 2 million Gulf Coast residents were evacuated from their homes as Hurricane Gustav barreled toward Louisiana and Texas.

October 9, 2008 - This week's large-scale immigration raid at Columbia Farms, a chicken processing plant near Greenville, S.C, where more than 300 were arrested, is just the latest in a stepped-up federal enforcement effort that has resulted in the deportation of thousands of illegal workers in recent months, re

October 7, 2008 - The Christian Science Monitor poses the question this week: could microloans work to revitalize the Gulf Coast in the same way they have worked for poor areas of Africa and Asia?