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Kiini Ibura Salaam is a writer, painter, and traveler from New Orleans, Louisiana. The middle child of five, she grew up in a hardscrabble neighborhood with oak and fig trees, locusts and mosquitoes, cousins and neighbors. Kiini's work delves into spheres of human liberation, human connection, and evolution. She employs speculative fiction and creative nonfiction to take readers through mind-bending journeys into the transcendent, the mystical, and the fantastic.
New Orleans
BlogKIS.listCivil Rights // desegregation // discrimination // documentary // New Orleans // Plessy vs. Ferguson // Race // Reconstruction // Supreme Court // Treme
Vol. 60, Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
Posted on 19 June 2008
Tribeca Film Festival New York, NY There are certain elements of the human experience that define our awareness. These “accidents” of birth hold immense power over our beliefs, understandings, and interests. Some of the factors that define us, like gender, are genetically determined. Others, like poverty, are determined by sociology and family membership. Still others,… »
BlogKIS.listclean up // Common Ground // Florida Bridge // industrial canal // Katrina // Keith Chandra McCormick // levee // lower 9th ward // memories // New Orleans // organization // recovery // St. Claude Bridge // Tennessee Street
Vol. 55, In New Orleans: Lower 9th Ward, Post-Katrina
Posted on 11 May 2006
A Ghetto Where Figs Grew The Ninth Ward is a notorious neighborhood in New Orleans. A Slate.com article about post-Katrina Ninth Ward characterizes it as “a historic black neighborhood, home to Fats Domino, abandoned by government, and the ‘murder capital of the murder capital.’” The author, Frank Ethridge, called the Ninth Ward an “impoverished neighborhood… »
BlogKIS.list9th Ward // FEMA // injustic // New Orleans // post-Katrina // relief // trailers
Vol. 54, In New Orleans: Going Home, Post Katrina
Posted on 12 April 2006
Before returning home to New Orleans in February, I had a marginal understanding of what it meant for New Orleanians who had been forced to evacuate due to Katrina to go home and rebuild. I understood it would be hard, but exactly what rebuilding entailed, I could not grasp the depth of the task. I… »
BlogKIS.list9th Ward // Anne Rice // Culture // history // hurricane // injustice // Katrina // New Orleans // Race
Vol. 51, New Orleans Underwater
Posted on 20 September 2005
Oaxaca, Mexico It is 4 in the morning and it is rainy season in Oaxaca. Everyday around 5 p.m. the sky opens up and it pours. Sometimes it stops. Sometimes it goes on and on until at some point in the morning you are awakened by the sound of water on your roof and you… »