HURRICANE KATRINA DEVASTATED OUR CITY. TWO DECADES LATER, IN A MEMORIAL PLACED AT ONE OF THE HARDEST HIT AREAS IN OUR CITY IS ...

STAND 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.

In this 1939 map prepared for the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, redlining separated New Orleans into grades. Green is an A, ...