New Orleans

If you’re from New Orleans, and Black or poor, 2020 is a lot like Hurricane Katrina

15 years later, life in “The Big Easy” is hard for poor people of color, as the city suffers from a national disaster of police killings and the pandemic.

If you’re from New Orleans, and Black or poor, 2020 is a lot like Hurricane Katrina

15 years later, life in “The Big Easy” is hard for poor people of color, as the city suffers from a national disaster of police killings and the pandemic.

Crossing the Boundaries

After Hurricane Katrina, I remember going into neighborhoods devastated by the storm … and going onto the land on which people, now gone, had walked and lived. It was eerie; in spite of it being the middle of the day,