Katrina Truth......
Featured reality checks:
housing
Housing
Today, with higher sale prices for homes and higher rents, the housing market in New Orleans is stronger, but not for poor Black New Orleanians.
Policing and Mass incarceration
Criminal Justice
Policing has been a man-made disaster in New Orleans for a long time, earning NOPD notoriety across the country and laying waste to Black communities for decades.
Education
Education
Education policy that relies upon exclusionary enrollment and discipline to achieve its results isnt reform. Its the school-to-prison pipeline.
Income Inequality
Economic Inequality
Ten years of uneven recovery have exacerbated the economic inequalities that predated Hurricane Katrina.
Black Leadership
Black Leadership in New Orleans
The exclusion of the Black electorate from the new vision for New Orleans has had obvious implications for Black politicians and the communities they once served.
Environment
Environmental Justice
In New Orleans and across the Gulf Region, exposure to toxic soil, air, and water is a racial justice and human rights crisis.
QPOC
Queer and Trans People of Color
Little of the rebuilding effort in New Orleans addresses the unique needs of the local LGBTQ community, especially Queer and Trans People of Color.
Health and Wellness
In the ten years since the storm, racial disparities in health persist in communities of color, adversely impacting the citys most vulnerable residents.
For a lot more.....
http://www.katrinatruth.org/ some reality about Katrina and the after math and the rebuilding. Same as it ever was, probably worse for many....