Wendell Pierce
Founder, Pontchartrain Park Community Development Corp.
Wendell Edward Pierce is an American actor and Tony-winning producer from New Orleans, Louisiana. He is best known for his roles in HBO dramas, such as Detective Bunk Moreland in The Wire, trombonist Antoine Batiste in Treme, and Michael Davenport in Waiting to Exhale. Currently Pierce has a starring role as Teddy on the CBS sitcom The Odd Couple. Pierce is also the founder of Pontchartrain Park Community Development Corp., a non-profit that builds new affordable solar and geothermal homes for families displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
If a rising tide lifts all boats, why isn’t America — a nation of such wealth and resources — a more egalitarian country? Actor Wendell Pierce says we’ve lost the true spirit of capitalism.
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The media treated the 10-year anniversary of Katrina with reverence. They should have been hard at work exposing the ugliness that still remains.
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