"Alice saved my life," neighbors say. In 2007, Alice Craft-Kerney helped to launch a post-Katrina clinic that was invaluable ...

The flooding from the faulty levee system of the canal after Hurricane Katrina cost scores of lives in the lower 9th Ward. Given this ignoble history, it is frankly shocking that the Army Corps ...

The Lens spent January talking to Lower 9th Ward residents to tell their stories, narratives a Super Bowl committee wanted to ...

Katrina makes landfall in ... up the easternmost length of the ring of hurricane-protection levees surrounding St. Bernard Parish and the Lower Ninth Ward, are rapidly overwhelmed and in some ...

Tyrone Turner photographed one person in the Lower Ninth Ward, then asked who he should meet next. Hear 12 New Orleans natives talk about what makes their city special.

Stoked by hurricane-force Santa Ana winds ... were for the majority Black areas of New Orleans East and the Lower Ninth Ward that were two of the city's hardest hit communities in 2005.

Making landfall on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans with enormous force. The city had faced deadly storms previously, including Hurricane Betsy in 1965, which caused extensive ...