The Hurricane Katrina memorial on the Claiborne Avenue neutral ground was the first thing visitors saw when crossing into New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward. It stood as a symbol of lives lost and a ...

By Shay O’Connor Click here for updates on this story Louisiana (WDSU) — Aug. 29 marks 20 years since Hurricane Katrina ...

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

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 ...

Mixed media artist Gina Phillips, from the Lower Ninth Ward, like so many others, lost everything in Hurricane Katrina, 20 ...

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 events of Aug. 29, 2005, and their aftereffects are seared into our collective memory. To mark the 20th anniversary of ...

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

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 ...

S TAND ON the rim of the grassy levees and you can see New Orleans’s dilemma: rising water on one side, a sinking city on the other. The people who call this place home have learned to live with water ...

ROBERT GALBRAITH/AFP via Getty The top of a New Orleans home after Hurricane Katrina hit. "The series sets the stage ... Marko Georgiev/Getty Lower Ninth Ward residents stranded on the roofs wait for ...