"The election happened, and I felt propelled to actually be engaged in doing organizing work and activism and doing something tangible with all of the anxiety, sadness and fear I was feeling," Tulane senior...
Ella Helmuth, Senior Staff Writer
• September 5, 2017
The day after the tragic events in Charlottesville, Mayor Jim Gray of Lexington, Kentucky, voiced his support for the relocation of two Confederate monuments from downtown Lexington, drawing national...
Amid rising temperatures and tensions, New Orleanians gathered last month at Lee Circle to watch the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue, the city's fourth removal of a monument since the New Orleans...
Nile Pierre, Intersections Associate Editor
• April 6, 2017
Tulane University can draw its roots back to 1834, more than a century before the move to desegregate schools in the United States. The university's past is closely intertwined with the Confederacy and...
Ella Helmuth, Associate News Editor
• March 16, 2017
New Orleans is scattered with civic references to its days as a city in the Confederate States of America. Some of the most prominent statues include Confederate General Robert E. Lee at Lee Circle, Confederate...
Instead of preparing for a tailgate this Saturday, a group of approximately 50 Tulane students marched through the streets of New Orleans alongside community organizers from Take 'Em Down NOLA, protesting...
