A mixed media artist, Gina Phillips from the Lower Ninth Ward, like so many others, lost everything in Hurricane Katrina, ...

Eternal Seeds, a youth art program in New Orleans, unveiled a mural along the levee breach site, commemorating the 20th ...

NEW ORLEANS — The Hurricane Katrina memorial on the Claiborne Avenue neutral ground was the first thing visitors saw when ...

New Orleans youth artists create mural at levee breach site in the lower 9th ward to honor Hurricane Katrina survivors and ...

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina swept through New Orleans, the images still haunt us : entire neighborhoods underwater, ...

AND HE LED THE EFFORT TO BUILD MORE THAN 100 HOMES IN THE HARD HIT LOWER NINTH WARD. MODERN, INNOVATIVE AND SAFE, MANY OF THE ...

When Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, it wasn't just another storm - it was one of the deadliest hurricanes in U.S. history. Entire neighborhoods ...

Rebuilding ‘The City That Care Forgot’ has not been a straightforward task. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Charity ...

The Lower Ninth Ward is cut off from the rest of New Orleans by a shipping channel, the Industrial Canal. During Hurricane Katrina, when the canal's flood walls gave way, water surged through the ...

Katrina survivor Patricia Peters is hugged by Geneva Seals during prayers and wreath laying ceremonies at the intersection of Tennessee Street and Claiborne Avenue in the Lower 9th Ward for the ...

Before Katrina, 14,000 people called the Ninth Ward home. Today, almost 2,000 live here. It's one of just a few New Orleans neighborhoods yet to regain at least half of its population.

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of StoryCorps, we revisit a mother's conversation with her son, who decided to open the only grocery store in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina.