Eternal Seeds, a youth art program in New Orleans, unveiled a mural along the levee breach site, commemorating the 20th ...

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 ...

Gina Phillips, a mixed media artist from the Lower Ninth Ward, transformed her life and art after losing everything in ...

The Hurricane Katrina memorial on the Claiborne Avenue neutral ground was the first thing visitors saw when crossing into New ...

A mixed media artist, Gina Phillips from the Lower Ninth Ward, like so many others, lost everything in Hurricane Katrina, ...

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 ...

Ten years after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the Lower Ninth Ward is still largely lost. While the rest of New Orleans has regained about 90 percent of its pre-Katrina population, only about ...

However, the Lower Ninth Ward was treated differently from other parts of New Orleans. As resident Minor Moe recalled, “St Bernard coming up. Uptown coming up. Canal Street coming up.

MARY AAROE, Lower Ninth Ward Resident: There's just a ton of folks that came down and recognized this area as what the people who have lived here for generations and generations have always known ...

By day, the Lower Ninth is part demolition zone, part graveyard for lost dreams. But at night, as street lights glow yellow, it's an eerie reminder of just how much changed in the early hours of ...