Ronnie Greene: 2 books
Shots on the Bridge
Police Violence and Cover-Up in the Wake of Katrina
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
A harrowing story of blue on black violence, of black lives that seemingly did not matter.
On September 4, 2005, six days after Hurricane Katrina’s landfall in New Orleans, two groups of people intersected on the Danziger Bridge, a low-rising expanse over the Industrial Canal. One was the...
Night Fire
Big Oil, Poison Air, and Margie Richard's Fight to Save Her Town
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The Diamond neighborhood was an all-black enclave in the mostly white town of Norco, Louisiana, aptly named for the New Orleans Refining Co., an industrial processing plant. Margie Eugene Richard was raised in the shadow of a giant chemical plant operated by Shell, and witnessed her neighbors fall...