He was the first writer to bring the story of the Jena 6 to a national audience and his reporting on post-Katrina New Orleans shared a journalism award from New America Media. His work has been published and broadcast in outlets including Die Zeit (in Germany), Clarin (in Argentina), Al-Jazeera, TeleSur and Democracy Now. He is currently traveling in Gaza with a delegation of journalists, organizers and human rights workers from the U.S. South. He can be reached at neworleans@leftturn.org. Related PostsNi’lin protesters tear down apartheid wall1,600 Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike since April 17Data Man: an innerview of rapper Do D.A.T Cynthia McKinney at the Grand Lake TheaterThe open-air prison called Gaza StripZemanta