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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Loyola Univesity’s Law Clinic filed a suit Tuesday morning in Orleans Civil District Court against the City of New Orleans after evacuating children held at the Juvenile Justice Intervention Center to an adult prison during Hurricane Ida.
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Since Hurricane Ida, reports of “dirty and unsafe” conditions at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, where 835 people were evacuated, and of communication issues at outer parish jails that were not evacuated despite mandatory orders have advocates once again calling for improved safety measures for people behind bars during a natural disaster.
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As restrictive abortion bans take shape across the nation and legislative battles make their way to the highest court, protesters on Saturday gathered in their respective cities, including New Orleans, to march for reproductive rights as part of the Women’s March movement.
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Those on Death Row will be granted a minimum of four hours to congregate outside their cells each day, plus other opportunities to leave their cells. Previously, they were confined in isolation 23 hours a day.
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A September 20 letter from the advocacy group Promise of Justice Initiative addressed to Gov. John Bel Edwards detailed poor conditions, neglect and violence that the Orleans Parish Prison evacuees said they experienced.
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Residents in parishes hit the hardest by the Category 4 Hurricane Ida could see federal relief for housing payments and repairs, officials announced Friday during a visit with U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge.
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One day after the Associated Press published a report revealing a pattern of brutality and secrecy among the Louisiana State Police's troopers, the agency’s newly appointed superintendent outlined reforms implemented over several months during a press conference Friday.
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New Orleans is no longer under curfew and beginning to ramp down its emergency operations 10 days after Hurricane Ida hit the city as a Category 4 storm.
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After Hurricane Ida, the New Orleans Health Department conducted wellness checks at several senior apartment complexes and found eight facilities to be unfit for ongoing occupancy. Strike teams also found five people dead in some of these homes.
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Gov. John Bel Edwards continued to visit parishes affected by Hurricane Ida on Sunday. He held a press conference in St. James Parish, which is still 100 percent without electricity after the Category 4 hurricane wiped out power for much of Southeast Louisiana one week ago.