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New Orleans native Michael Woolens was traumatized after being shot at because he is Black and homeless. ...
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He’s traumatized, after being shot at for being Black and homeless
May 1, 2023
Early one morning this year,a stranger dressed in body armor shot at Michael Woolens,in what the New Orleans Police Department described as a racial hate crime. Using the N word, the man said he did not like seeing Woolens and he did not like homeless...
He’s traumatized, after being shot at for being Black and homeless
April 29, 2023
Early one morning this year,a stranger dressed in body armor shot at Michael Woolens,in what the New Orleans Police Department described as a racial hate crime. Using the N word, the man said he did not like seeing Woolens and he did not like homeless...
“I was so lost,” Ms. Laverne remembers, about the tragedies that led her to a sidewalk in Central City.
November 28, 2022
“I felt so cold. And lonely. And I was so scared,” said Laverne Fleming,as she walked recently past a span of brown cardboard, spread out on a sidewalk in Central City. Fleming, at age 69, slept in the spot for three winter months. It had been a...
With one look at his face, you can see that he’s been to hell and back. Now he’s happy in his own place.
May 3, 2022
Ricky Mitchell, 64, was hit by a shotgun blast meant for someone else. He lost the sight in one eye. He is re-learning how to walk, though he will always need a cane to get around. UNITY outreach worker Jeremy Finnegan found Mr. Ricky sleeping behind...
