Big Sole Blog (BSB)

I attended a women's group meeting today where I learned that human trafficking of young girls plagues New Orleans because the city is a major port and tourism destination. I may have heard this before, but this is the first time the news really hit me as "of course this horrible fact must be true," and that realization rattled me. So, I came home and researched the

video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player I know Brian Banks's mother must be overjoyed right now. Her son is free, exonerated of bogus rape charges.I abhor that in court actual victims of rape often unjustly end up on trial instead of the accused rapist, but I abhor equally that a young and confused girl or a disturbed and even plainly malicious woman can accuse a man of rape

I love good music whatever the genre--blues, pop, rock, R&B, jazz, bluegrass, opera--but let's face it, some song lyrics about people in love are really about people locked in obsession and would be labeled more accurately "confessions of a control freak." For instance, you do know that "Every Breath You Take" by Sting and the Police is really about a stalker, don't you? I'm not criticizing the

Isaiah Doyle, a 28 year-old who confessed to killing a conveneience store clerk in Jefferson Parish, La., during a robbery in 2005, has been sentenced to death. His attorneys argued that he was mentally handicapped in order to save him from the death penalty. According to WWL, "a psychologist for the defense said, 'Without a doubt, he has mental retardation.'” The prosecution offered its own

Last year I wrote "The Grim Sleeper: Death and Racial Politics," a post about the California case involving a serial killer who murders poor, black women and the investigation's slow progress. Fellow blogger MsLadyDeborah alerted me to an update. Per the LA Times, the Los Angeles Police Department is "seeking the public's aid in identifying about 160 women whose images were found on the property