Katrina's Damage Continuous and Poor Hurt Most

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Post-[Katrina] events bear out the Association's analysis. This includes mainstream media's biased coverage of Black survivors and public officials' poor planning and tepid response to the catastrophe. The psychologists ask. "What happens to a people who have been dispossessed, despised and disinherited when tragedy occurs?"

Corpus Christi Church, "'Backatown," Aubry Street, First Communion, the Circle Show. Two Sisters, the Pentagon and Anybody's, Haspels, Bruxelles, Crescent Pharmacy, the Neutral Ground, St. Bernard Market, Autocrat Club, beer parlors, long bread, Jax and Falstaff Beer, Xavier Prep and Xavier University.

Vivid family memories: Uncle Robert and Edwin's Sunday visits after my father's death; Nunc Henri and Taunte Mellie, Aunt Georgie's house with its big cistern and old coffee grinder: Uncle Bud's daily dealings at the market on St. Claude; fritters, snowballs, icebergs and P's Barber Shop and Ice Cream Parlor, and years later, his bowling alley.

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Katrina's Damage Continuous and Poor Hurt Most

There is broad consensus that post-Katrina New Orleans is a divided city, racially and economically, the poor are not top priority, and, the city will never be the same. Many also believe the mayor and the federal government have fa...

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