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 ...

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

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

Lowernine.org has launched a nationwide #50states Ambassador Program In observance of the 20th anniversary of Hurricane ...

WDSU reporter Shay O'Connor went to the mural in the Lower 9th Ward, aiming to show kids there is a brighter future in New Orleans. "The wall addresses several points of time: Pre-Katrina, during ...

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 taboo racial element, horrific conditions in the Superdome, how many victims remain missing and more lesser known facts about Hurricane Katrina.

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 ...

Before Katrina, 14,000 people called the Ninth Ward home. Today, almost 2,000 live here. It's one of just a few New Orleans neighborhoods yet to regain at least half of its population.

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of StoryCorps, we revisit a mother's conversation with her son, who decided to open the only grocery store in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina.