Representatives from The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund (LCCREF) and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) discuss post-Katrina poverty in Louisiana and across the nation in a conference call briefing with Talk Radio News.
James Perry, Executive Director of the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center, talks about discrimination against those displaced by Hurricane Katrina and says, "66% of the time the black evacuees were treated less favorably than the white evacuees." (0:53)
August 22, 2006
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