New Orleans

The following essay appeared on Common Dreams and Counterpunch. I publish the link in honor of the first anniversary of Katrina and the loss of a major American city. It's not the first city we have lost. Detroit is block after block of boarded up houses and empty lots where houses used to be. It's the only place I've ever seen with boarded up skyscrapers. Both were great African American cities, full of music and feistiness. Common Dreams