Here in New Orleans, the air is electric. The Saints are going to the Super Bowl for the first time in history! It's been long road through years of mediocrity, a promising 2006 run that many saw as emblematic of the region's Katrina recovery, then three more years of fine-tuning....

HuffPo contributor Ben Chaneles is a grassroots media activist, relief worker and law student in New Orleans, Louisiana. He spent yesterday at the Jena 6 march in Jena, Louisiana, and sent us these photos and notes from the day.

Folks from New Orleans will tell you, this is a city full of hustlers. Whoever you meet, whatever they're doing, there's probably a little something extra going on, a little cachet for those who keep an eye open for just the right angle. And the thing is, it's one of...