Sandwiched between the robust retail landscapes of St. Bernard Parish, the Marigny and the French Quarter, the Lower 9th Ward ...

The Lower Ninth Ward is cut off from the rest of New Orleans by a shipping channel ... Sponsor Message Before Katrina, there was a bar on the street and a church on the corner.

Each year, a group of Hurricane Katrina survivors gather in New Orleans’ Lower ... a resident of the Lower 9th Ward since he was 12 years old. He describes it before Katrina as a vibrant ...

NEW ORLEANS — The ... will take at least 20 years before we get it back.” The Lower 9th Ward, or “Lower Nine,” struggled with poverty and crime even before Katrina struck in 2005.

What was New Orleans ... as the Lower Ninth Ward, where the collapse of the federal levees led to floods that overwhelmed homes. Also, tens of thousands of people didn't evacuate before the ...

Kent Montgomery at an abandoned apartment complex in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans on Friday ... the Lower 9th Ward in 2000, five years before Katrina. Five years after the storm, the census ...

The human-made disaster in New Orleans before ... Instead, I discovered that the Lower Ninth Ward – a neighborhood that, before Katrina, had one of the highest rates of black homeownership ...

NEW ORLEANS – Talking about New Orleans a decade after Hurricane Katrina, people here often reach for the Biblical, describing an economic and cultural resurrection. Helped by billions in ...

After the pounding winds and hammering rains of Hurricane Katrina slammed into New Orleans, the worst was still yet to come. Flood waters rushed into the Ninth Ward, one of New Orleans' poorest ...

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