Bobbi-Jeanne Misick
Justice, Race and Equity Reporter, Gulf States NewsroomBobbi-Jeanne Misick is the justice, race and equity reporter for the Gulf States Newsroom, a collaboration between NPR, WWNO in New Orleans, WBHM in Birmingham, Alabama and MPB-Mississippi Public Broadcasting in Jackson. She is also an Ida B. Wells Fellow with Type Investigations at Type Media Center.
Previously, Bobbi-Jeanne worked as a reporter for WWNO and WRKF reporting on health, criminal and social justice issues. She has also worked as a reporter and producer in the Caribbean, covering a range of topics from different LGBTQ issues in the region to extrajudicial killings in Jamaica and the rise of extremism in Trinidad and Tobago.
Bobbi-Jeanne is a graduate of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. Before that, she worked as an assistant editor and pop culture writer for Essence.com.
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Black residents of Southeast Louisiana, dedicated to fighting air and soil pollution in their own neighborhoods and towns met with EPA Administrator Michael Regan on his “Journey to Justice,” listening tour, sharing their stories and frustrations.
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New Orleanians must wait a few more weeks to learn who their next sheriff will be, with a runoff called between incumbent Sheriff Marlin Gusman and former New Orleans Police Department Independent Monitor Susan Hutson.
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Campaign fliers are in mailboxes, yard signs endorsing candidates are popping up on lawns and phone banks are dialing every 504 phone number they can: it's election time in New Orleans.
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Gov. John Bel Edwards will likely not issue a major disaster declaration after a severe storm blew through Southwest Louisiana on Wednesday. But he acknowledged all of the damage the region has sustained beginning last year, from two hurricanes, a winter storm, a spring flood and now a EF-2 tornado.
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As of Friday Oct. 29, New Orleanians will no longer be required to wear masks in most public spaces, Mayor LaToya Cantrell announced Wednesday.
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Lester Pearson, 84, is a "10-6 lifer," one of roughly 60 men who took plea deals for life sentences with the chance of parole after 10 years and six months. During the first decade of their incarceration, laws changed and they were left to serve much lengthier prison sentences than they bargained for. After 57 years, Pearson was finally released on Tuesday, Oct. 19.
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New Orleans is looking into taking over some control of garbage collection in the city, instead of relying solely on private contractors to pick up residential trash.
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Not a single public comment submitted on the expansion of the Orleans Justice Center was in support of the project during a streamed New Orleans City Planning Commission meeting Tuesday, when officials discussed possible recommendations for the City Council to either approve or deny a conditional land use permit.
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The New Orleans City Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on Tuesday afternoon to discuss the future of plans to build phase III of Orleans Justice Center, the controversial expansion of the New Orleans jail that has been opposed by criminal justice advocates and some city officials who have protested and even attempted to halt the project.
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In the shooting death of veteran Master Trooper Adam Gaubert early Saturday morning, officials said during an emotional Monday press conference that he was ambushed while he was writing reports in his vehicle, and they blamed current protocols in place for not protecting the officer.