Deepa Fernandes

BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator Deepa Fernandes, is a progressive award-winning journalist, who is currently the host of Wakeup Call, the morning news show at WBAI 99.5 FM in New York. She is also Co-Director of the Peoples Production House and the author of "Targeted: Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration" published by 7stories Press and a Puffin writing fellow at the Nation Institute. Click here to contact Ms. Fernandes.

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2: A Trailer Park Tale – Three Years After Katrina

By Deepa Fernandes Guest Commentator

The elegant-sounding address of 2000 Groom Road belies the reality. “A cow pasture, that’s what I like to call our home” Lena Beard declared back in December 2006, referring to the country’s largest FEMA trailer park in which she had lived since October 2005. The 62 acre field, with its orderly rows of little white…

The elegant-sounding address of 2000 Groom Road belies the reality. “A cow pasture, that’s what I like to call our home” Lena Beard declared back in…

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