| Tens of thousands of people went to New Orleans last month to celebrate Mardi Gras. Yet community groups there are fighting for basic infrastructure like schools and hospitals while streets of margina

| The trial of 6 black students from Jena, Louisiana has refocused attention on race and justice in the US.

| The BP spill in the Gulf is just one in a series of oil-related disasters that have affected small African-American, Native and Vietnamese communities.

| In 2006, six high-school students found themselves facing charges of attempting murder following racist incidents in the schoolyard. Independent journalist Jordan Flaherty tells the story.