Gulf Coast
April 9, 2008 -
As Facing South readers know, federal leaders -- most notably Alphonso Jackson, who announced his resignation last Monday under a cloud of scandal from his perch at Housing and Urban Development --
April 4, 2008 -
By James Perry, Executive Director Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center
April 1, 2008 -
The following statement is from the Advancement Project, a civil rights group that filed a lawsuit against U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson on behalf of New Orleans public housing residents shut out of their homes after Hurricane Katrina.
March 27, 2008 -
A group of people left homeless by Hurricane Katrina is suing the Federal Emergency Management Agency for housing them in trailers contaminated with dangerous levels of formaldehyde.
March 26, 2008 -
Yesterday New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin lashed out at the Times-Picayune newspaper for reporting on a deal landed by his family's company to install countertops for a Central City Home Depot at the
March 20, 2008 -
It's been over a week now that the sermons of Rev. Jeremiah Wright -- Sen. Barack Obama's pastor in Chicago -- have been the top media headline of Election '08. The question of whether it makes sense to judge politicians by the company they keep is valid, but the media's sudden interest in such guilt-by-association is a bit surprising.
March 7, 2008 -
Former Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco is on the lecture circuit these days talking about lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina.