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 ...

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 ...

Looking back on New Orleans 20 years after Hurricane Katrina is a reminder that while such hazards may be natural, the death ...

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

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 ...

The Lower Ninth Ward celebrated its resiliency in rebuilding since the devastation of Hurricane Katrina 17 years ago. There were Food trucks, community organizations and businesses that took part.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Calvin Alexander bought his two-story home in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward back in 1978. He and his wife raised five children there, only to nearly lose it all 15 years ago when Hurricane ...

Many residents of New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward felt like they got hit twice — first by Katrina, then by a wave of bad publicity, as policymakers wondered whether the area needed to be abandoned.