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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Lower 9th Ward, or “Lower Nine,” struggled with poverty and crime even before Katrina struck in 2005. It was home to 14,000 residents, mostly African American homeowners.

On Friday, we will break ground on a new CVS Pharmacy in the Lower Ninth Ward,” city spokesman Bradley Howard said. The city says more than $500 million has been invested in the Lower Ninth Ward ...

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.

The question now is whether the Lower Ninth Ward should be resuscitated. The debate will test this city’s mettle and is sure to expose tensions over race, poverty and political power.