Light For the Dark City?
“This is indeed a dark city and we’re bringing the light. You know wherever soldiers go, there goes the word of God.” By Elizabeth Rich Discussion of the National Guard’s Continue Reading →
Tag: Katrina
Other New Orleans
New Orleans may be a city “where old-time religion and voodoo converge,” as the NYT’s Michael Brick puts it, but so far the Katrina coverage — heavy on prayers and Continue Reading →
Katrina Coverage Brown-Out
White “finds.” Black “loots.” Brown hides beneath church pews. Too bad the press isn’t looking. By Marissa Kantor Mainstream media and most liberal-minded Americans are blaming the Bush administration’s failure Continue Reading →
Lights Out
New Orleans: Let there be light! Or not.
Teaching a Disaster
The Revealer has very rarely received as much mail as we did in response to Anthea Butler‘s response to Katrina, “As Sheep Without a Shepherd.” Some it angry about Anthea’s Continue Reading →
Loot This
Billy Sothern: “I hope that in the event that my house is still standing and above water, someone has the good sense to loot it; there are 20 gallons of Continue Reading →
As Sheep Without a Shepherd
CNN has presented the boldest critique yet of the New Orleans rescue effort, a five minute interview with a calm, articulate man trapped in the Superdome, who calls what’s happening Continue Reading →
"The Rest of the Goddamn Nation"
Those aren’t the words of a starving prisoner of the New Orleans Superdome, radicalized by the realization that he or she may well die for lack of a school bus. Continue Reading →
“The Rest of the Goddamn Nation”
Those aren’t the words of a starving prisoner of the New Orleans Superdome, radicalized by the realization that he or she may well die for lack of a school bus. Continue Reading →