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Lower 9 residents hope deteriorating Katrina memorial will be replaced before 20th anniversary Aug. 29 marks 20 years since Hurricane Katrina devastated our city. Two decades later, and a memorial ...
S TAND ON the rim of the grassy levees and you can see New Orleans’s dilemma: rising water on one side, a sinking city on the other. The people who call this place home have learned to live with water ...
One of the hurricane's most important lessons isn’t about storm preparations — it’s about injustice. Communities should build disaster resilience across the entire population, focusing aid where ...
Lowernine.org has launched a nationwide #50states Ambassador Program In observance of the 20th anniversary of Hurricane ...
Gina Phillips, a mixed media artist from the Lower Ninth Ward, transformed her life and art after losing everything in ...
Looking back on New Orleans 20 years after Hurricane Katrina is a reminder that while such hazards may be natural, the death ...
A mixed media artist, Gina Phillips from the Lower Ninth Ward, like so many others, lost everything in Hurricane Katrina, twenty years ago. Now decades later she’s reflecting on the ...
NEW ORLEANS — The Hurricane Katrina memorial on the Claiborne Avenue neutral ground was the first thing visitors saw when ...
Eternal Seeds, a youth art program in New Orleans, unveiled a mural along the levee breach site, commemorating the 20th ...
Katrina work shows how a generation of teachers had a front-row seat to dramatic changes in New Orleans schools.
Louisiana is the No. 1 commercial oyster producer in the United States. Twenty years after Katrina, oyster farmers say they are still just one disaster away from the oyster community dying.