Jordan is a journalist, an editor of Left Turn Magazine, and a staffer with the Louisiana Justice Institute. He was the first writer to bring the story of the Jena Six to a national audience and audiences around the world have seen the television reports he’s produced for Al-Jazeera, TeleSur, GritTV, and Democracy Now. His post-Katrina reporting for ColorLines shared an award from New America Media for best Katrina-related reporting in ethnic press. Haymarket Press will release his new book, FLOODLINES: Stories of Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six, in 2010.
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From Heroes to Villains: NOPD Verdict Reveals Post-Katrina History
by Jordan Flaherty on August 8 2011, 9:30AM
The Justice Department’s victory is a decisive rejection of the idea that chaos in the days following Katrina justified the violence of the New Orleans Police Department. It’s a win for police accountability nationwide.
Topics: Criminal Justice, Katrina Recovery
Federal Civil Rights Suit Challenges Louisiana’s Felony Sex Work Law
by Jordan Flaherty on March 17 2011, 10:19AM
Jordan Flaherty follows up on last year’s report of an archaic anti-gay law that puts sex workers in child molestation registries.
Topics: Criminal Justice, Gender & Sexuality
The Long Rap Sheet of New Orleans Cops
by Jordan Flaherty on May 13 2010, 12:00PM
As the Justice Department considers overhauling the city’s law enforcement, it will have to round up more than a few post-Katrina rogues. Even the coroner’s got a past.
Topics: Criminal Justice
James Perry’s Run for Mayor
of New Orleans
by Jordan Flaherty on January 28 2010, 12:00PM
Can a social justice candidate win an election in the new New Orleans?
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Her Crime? Sex Work in New Orleans
by Jordan Flaherty on January 13 2010, 12:00PM
With police charging sex workers as sex offenders, activists hope the city’s elections will pave the way for fighting the law.
Topics: Criminal Justice
Discriminatory Housing Lockouts Amid Post-Katrina Rebuilding
by Jordan Flaherty on October 7 2009, 12:00PM
St. Bernard Parish has the support of Alice Walker and Oprah Winfrey, but continues to exclude Black residents.
Topics: Hurricane Katrina
Homeless and Struggling in New Orleans
by Jordan Flaherty on August 27 2009, 12:00PM
On the fourth anniversary of Katrina, people are still dying.
Topics: Hurricane Katrina
by Jordan Flaherty on May 22 2009, 12:00PM
A new group of Black video activists thinks MLK would have been on YouTube.
Topics: Arts & Culture
by Jordan Flaherty on April 22 2009, 12:00PM
Young Arab activists have been organizing in the Big Easy for the last six years. Now, they’re watching their work pay off.
Topics: Hurricane Katrina
by Jordan Flaherty on May 16 2007, 12:00PM
Mississippi Forgotten? The most impoverished state has been left out of the reconstruction aid.
Topics: Hurricane Katrina
by Jordan Flaherty on March 1 2007, 12:00PM
Black-owned businesses and community centers in New Orleans are in crisis.
Topics: Hurricane Katrina
by Jordan Flaherty on June 21 2006, 12:00PM
Does viewing the devastation in New Orleans help?
Topics: Hurricane Katrina
by Jordan Flaherty on March 21 2006, 12:00PM
The people wanted to rebuild. What they got instead were private security forces.
Topics: Criminal Justice, Hurricane Katrina
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