Still Separate, Still Unequal
by Jeanie Donovan, M.P.A., M.P.H. and Fred Kammer, S.J., J.D.
Across the country, schools are opening and students returning to their classrooms. Despite the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown versus Board of Education decision to desegregate schools “with all deliberate speed,” too many classrooms are still segregated.
A Slave on the Fourth
by Bill McCormick, SJ, Ph.D., JSRI Summer Associate
Our Better Angels
by Sue Weishar, Ph.D.
In the recently ended regular session of the Louisiana legislature, immigrant advocates worked hard to convince state legislators that the bias-free policing policies adopted by the NOPD and Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office [1] did not make New Orleans a “sanctuary city,” and that a bill introduced to prohibit New Orleans’ bias-free law enforcement policies, HB 1148, should be opposed because it scapegoats immigrants and would undermine community safety.
Rhetoric and Reality
by Edward "Ted" Arroyo, SJ, Ph.D.
Pope Francis’ recent prayer at the Juarez/El Paso border led to this airborne response to a journalist’s question: “A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.” These simple words opened up in the blogosphere floodgates of anti-papal as well as anti-immigrant inundations reaching far beyond the Rio Grande’s tiny arroyo dividing the U.S. and Mexico.
Faith in Action
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by Fred Kammer, SJ
On Thursday, February 11, 85 concerned Mississippians gathered in the parish center at the Cathedral of St. Peter the Apostle in Jackson for the annual Catholic Day at the Capitol. Three issues were the focus of the advocacy gathering: adequate funding for the child welfare system in Mississippi; support for the maintenance of community-based mental health services; and raising adequate revenues to meet the State’s duties towards the common good.
From Sea to Shining Sea, We Welcome Thee
by: Sue Weishar, Ph.D.
Give Louisiana Workers The Gift They Truly Deserve: A Raise
by Jeanie Donovan, MPA, MPH
Ingratitude: What Ignatius had to say.
by Fred Kammer, SJ
Katrina and the Least Among Us
A ten year retrospective - Part 2
by Fred Kammer, SJ
Public Schools. New Orleans public education “can claim the most dramatic before-and-after Katrina picture.”[1] In the 1950s and 60s, whites fled integration to private and parochial schools. Middle-class blacks followed. The pre-Katrina system was 94% African-American with 73% qualifying for free and subsidized lunches. Orleans Parish public schools ranked 67th out of 68 Louisiana districts in math and reading. 62% of students attended schools rated “failing.”[2] Corruption was widespread.
Katrina and the Least Among Us
A ten year retrospective - Part 1
by Fred Kammer, SJ