About 100 people rallied outside a gun shop, joining protesters in
more than a dozen cities across the U.S. to call for tougher gun laws.
The national day of protest on Tuesday, organized by the Rev. Jesse
Jackson's nonprofit Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, was planned for at least 17
cities... Read more at International Herald Tribune
Nearly 200 New Orleans residents and their supporters assembled a month before
the two-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina to do something their government
had refused to do: build a levee. Read more at Colorlines.org
Young men of color are rapidly disappearing
into New Orleans jails without reprieve. New Orleans has the highest incarceration rate of any major US city--double the
national rate. Louisiana also locks up more people in local jails than any state... Read more at TheNation.com
African Americans living in San
Francisco lose more years of life to just about every possible cause of
death than city residents of other racial backgrounds, and violence
robs African American men of more years of life than any other cause of
death. Read more at SFGate.com
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