New Orleans - birthplace of jazz

New Orleans – after hurricane katrina

 

Bourbon Street
Bourbon Street is a historic street in the heart of the French Quarter

 

New Orleans – prior to Hurricane Katrina the sole majority African American city with all the beauty and culture generated from creative resistance to America’s history of white supremacy.

 

French Quarter of New Orleans
The old French Quarter was relatively undamaged by Katrina

 

Katrina was a hurricane that made landfall on Florida and Louisiana in August 2005.

The hurricane causing catastrophic damage, particularly in the city of New Orleans.

 

Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina

 

Subsequent flooding precipitated most of the loss of lives.

 

New Orleans cemeteries
New Orleans cemeteries – “Cities of the Dead”

 

White New Orleans Has Recovered from Hurricane Katrina.

 

French Quarter of New Orleans
French Quarter of New Orleans

Black Has Not.

 

Voodoo
Voodoo faith, often spelled “vodou”, combines spirituality and folklore from African traditions, Catholicism, and a host of other beliefs.

In the years after Katrina, the city was often referred to as “smaller, whiter and wealthier”.

 

Mississippi River steamboats
Mississippi River steamboat at New Orleans

 

“The Princess and the frog” is a tribute to early  New Orleans culture.

 

 

Official Tourism Website: https://www.neworleans.com

The books on Hurricane Katrina: 17 Of The Best Things Ever Written About Hurricane Katrina

 

 

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