Archive for January, 2006
Before Katrina: Fighting To Preserve Turkey Creek
While the fight for self determination for all residents of New Orleans—their right to return and to rebuild their communities—has not been the focus of mainstream news coverage, it is an issue that many readers have probably read something about. As in New Orleans, the interest of white developers in predominantly African American neighborhoods is ...Read more.
Turkey Creek: Historic African American Community In North Gulfport
North Gulfport is home to the historic African American community of Turkey Creek. In 1866, a small group of recently emancipated African-Americans exercised their newly acquired rights of citizenship, property-ownership and self-determination to purchase and settle the 320 acres or “eight forties” that came to be known as the Turkey Creek community…. Named for both ...Read more.
Before Katrina: Modern Day Debtors' Prison In Gulfport, MS
Gulfport, MS was in the news over the weekend with a jaw-dropping story. Saturday’s US News & World Report told of a class action suit against the city, concerning what amounted to a debtors’ prison before Hurricane Katrina: Last July, a homeless man named Hubert Lindsey was stopped by police officers in Gulfport, Miss., for ...Read more.
Gulf Coast Trip – January 22-29, 2006
This town has stood up in the face of thingsLots worse than a ninety mile windIt’s not bad storms I’m afraid of todayBut the greed that our leaders walk in. I’ll walk along the Boardwalk railAnd feel and hear this ninety mile galeI can hear the ocean mourn and groanAnd I wonder about ships lost ...Read more.
