It is seldom that a politician can move me down to my core, but New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu had me nearly in tears Thursday. Addressing the opening ceremony for the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) convention in the Big Easy, Landrieu spoke in lyrical and, at times, poetic detail about the slayings that [...]
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