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Gina Phillips, a mixed media artist from the Lower Ninth Ward, transformed her life and art after losing everything in ...
Eternal Seeds, a youth art program in New Orleans, unveiled a mural along the levee breach site, commemorating the 20th ...
The Hurricane Katrina memorial on the Claiborne Avenue neutral ground was the first thing visitors saw when crossing into New ...
Looking back on New Orleans 20 years after Hurricane Katrina is a reminder that while such hazards may be natural, the death ...
AND HE LED THE EFFORT TO BUILD MORE THAN 100 HOMES IN THE HARD HIT LOWER NINTH WARD. MODERN, INNOVATIVE AND SAFE, MANY OF THE ...
During the storm, the Lower Ninth Ward was wrecked by wind, rain and flooding from a levee breach. In the 11 years since, the historic neighborhood has been slow to rebuild.
He refers to statistics revealing a per-capita homicide rate in the Lower Ninth Ward over the last 10 years of 120 people per 100,000 residents, a rate 10 times higher than that of New York City ...
The Lower Ninth Ward is cut off from the rest of New Orleans by a shipping channel, the Industrial Canal. During Hurricane Katrina, when the canal's flood walls gave way, water surged through the ...
About Survival in the Lower Ninth Ward By Cynthia Citron If you are an American, you are aware that there are a number of traumatic dates that have become an indelible part of our collective ...
Story Highlights 95 percent of Lower Ninth Ward clinic's patients have no health insurance While most of the debris from Katrina is gone, area still abandoned wasteland ...
Patricia Berryhill sits behind a desk in what not too long ago was her living room, cheerfully greeting those who walk in and reaching for the phone as it rings yet again.