Murder victims have sadly been framed as statistics, especially in high crime cities. Father Bill Terry decided to do something about it and found a simple way to humanize these victims.

Visit our New Orleans page to listen to the Murder Board segment in our full hour radio episode or for further information about what we found in the Big Easy.

Big Freedia and Katey Red in the Third Ward of New Orleans; photo courtesy of Lyle Ashton Harris for the New York Times

For those of you who enjoyed State of the Re:Union’s story on Bounce music in our New Orleans episode– and the gay and transgender rappers who are the genre’s growing stars– check out the new feature about it from the New York Times! And if you haven’t heard SOTRU’s take, be sure to give a listen (it’s in Segment C!)… You’ll be poppin’ in no time…

The deadline is approaching for the My Community in One Picture and we’d really love to have your submission! All we need from you:

- One photo you feel captures the essence of your community. This can be anything you feel fits, a landscape, a local business, your family, etc. Please note, it doesn’t matter what kind of camera you have or what the quality is.

- Your name, the name of your community, the subject of your photo and the title if it has one.

Please email to brenton@stateofthereunion.com with the subject line of: My Community in One Picture. We are going to start featuring one photo a day on our website beginning August 2nd. Hope to see your photo there!

Hello, Fellow Re:Union-Goers

A few weeks ago Brenton, our marvelous multimedia maker, told me about this outstanding idea he had. Now, Brenton’s an idea man through-and-through. When he’s not brainstorming ways to capture that elusive SOTRU story through the creative use of media, he’s strategizing effective ways to involve our audience and encourage them to tell stories about their communities. So, a clever concept from his area of the office is nothing new. But his plan for The My Community in One Picture Project, well this idea is absolutely genius. (more…)