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Issue: Displacement
As of May 2007, there were still more than 30,000 displaced families scattered across the United States. As the months drag on, they face a unique set of challenges, from the financial to the psychological. As many lose hope they will ever return, others fight against all odds to rebuild their homes and communities.
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Beyond Black and White
Sara Catania wrote stories on the long-term effect of the storm on Vietnamese communities all along the Gulf Coast.
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Child of the Flood
Child of the Flood, a novel by Dale Maharidge with photographs by Michael Williamson, combines fiction with documentary imagery and chronicles the story of John Boucher, an 18-year-old who is knocked unconscious and loses his memory as a result of the post-Katrina flooding.
Print Child of the Flood Child of the Flood
Photo Child of the Flood (Photographs) Child of the Flood (Photographs)
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Generation Katrina
Youth Radio partnered with local New Orleans youth media groups, schools, non-profit organizations, and individual young people to create Generation Katrina: Youth Voices from New Orleans.
Audio Generation Katrina Generation Katrina
Audio Neighborhood Violence Post Katrina Neighborhood Violence Post Katrina
Audio The Robinson Family The Robinson Family
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Gulf Coast: Work in Progress
Dee Davis and the Center for Rural Strategies developed a media campaign to illustrate the struggles of rural Gulf Coast residents to re-establish their lives after hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The project aimed to help Americans understand conditions along the rural Gulf Coast and explore how America's failure to formulate effective rural policy is reaping disaster.
Video Gulf Coast: Work in Progress Gulf Coast: Work in Progress
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Lives Out of Context: A Hurricane of Race
Ten photographers from Kamoinge, a New York-based collective of African-American photographers, documented ravished communities impacted by the hurricane and the devastation's far-reaching ramifications on the economic, social, and racial fabric of its residents; the resulting body of work explores the despair, as well as the hope and resilience of the many residents who have lived in these communities for countless generations.
Photo Photographs by Salimah Ali Photographs by Salimah Ali
Photo Photographs by Gerald Cyrus Photographs by Gerald Cyrus
Photo Photographs by Collette V. Fournier Photographs by Collette V. Fournier
Photo Photographs by Wayne Lawrence Photographs by Wayne Lawrence
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Living Through the Storm
Mark Hertsgaard focused on global warming and interviewed a wide range of people about what went wrong in New Orleans before Katrina, and how ongoing reconstruction and conservation efforts could protect the Gulf Coast in the future.
Print Adapt or Die Adapt or Die
Main Image: Portrait of Neglect: Injustice of Hurricane Katrina
Portrait of Neglect: Injustice of Hurricane Katrina
"Portrait of Neglect: Injustice of Hurricane Katrina" is a body of photographs by Debbie Fleming Caffery that aims to capture the effects of this disaster on Louisiana's African American population.
Photo Portrait of Neglect Portrait of Neglect
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Still Standing
Still Standing provides an intimate portrayal of the challenges faced by three Hurricane Katrina survivors six months after the storm.
Video Still Standing Still Standing
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Struggling to Make It
Katy Reckdahl covered the working poor in New Orleans, their struggles to return to the city after Katrina, and the hurdles they faced once they arrived home.
Print Do You Know What It Means to Myth New Orleans? Do You Know What It Means to Myth New Orleans?
Print Like a Ton of Bricks Like a Ton of Bricks
Print One-Way Dilemma One-Way Dilemma
Print Razing a Community Razing a Community
Print Sour Note Sour Note
Print They Got It Bad They Got It Bad
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Those Who Fell Through the Cracks
"Those Who Fell Through the Cracks" is a collaborative photography project by Stanley Greene and Kadir van Lohuizen that documents Hurricane Katrina's effects on Gulf Coast residents who are still struggling to reestablish their lives after the storm.
Photo Photographs by Kadir van Lohuizen Photographs by Kadir van Lohuizen
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To Have Not, And To Hold
Filmmaker June Cross is working on a feature-length documentary film that examines the failures of public policy through the experiences of one extended family from New Orleans.
Video To Have Not, And To Hold To Have Not, And To Hold
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Toxic Trailers
Amanda Spake researched and reported on the long-term impact of Katrina on the health of Gulf Coast residents; special focus was given to residents who had moved into FEMA-supplied trailers, which are now creating a major health care crisis of their own.
Print Dying for a Home Dying for a Home
Print The Formaldehyde Cover-Up The Formaldehyde Cover-Up
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Where Do We Go From Here?
Joseph Rodriguez created an extensive body of photographs that will be distributed as a book, featured in online exhibitions, and displayed as a traveling exhibition consisting of approximately 25 multimedia portraits of individuals affected by Hurricane Katrina.
Photo The Hendricks Family The Hendricks Family
Photo Joseph Lawrence Joseph Lawrence
Photo Julia Stewart Julia Stewart
Photo Katrina Robinson Katrina Robinson
Photo Vietnamese Tet Festival in New Orleans East Vietnamese Tet Festival in New Orleans East
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Won't Bow Down
Larry Blumenfeld researched and wrote about the post-Katrina realities faced by the prime movers in New Orleans's musical subcultures—from jazz musicians and brass band players to tribes of Mardi Gras Indians and the Social Aid and Pleasure clubs—and the cultural crises that emerged in the wake of the 2005 floods.
Print Do We Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? Do We Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?
 
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