When I decided to do AVODAH in New Orleans, I was prepared for an extraordinary experience. While each of the AVODAH cities has a distinctive history and culture, and its own manifestations of urban poverty, New Orleans is unique in the sense that every aspect of people’s lives here has been affected by Hurricane Katrina [...]
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Read full post...When I spent the night with Ruth, I didn’t even know what her last name was. I didn’t know how old she was, or whether she’d had children, or what her line of work had been.
I met Ruth at a funeral home in Metairie. It was raining and cold when I slid out of the [...]
On September 16th, 2009, five days after the eighth anniversary of Nine-Eleven, my nine housemates and I clustered around our basement TV. We were watching Trouble the Water, a documentary about Kimberly Rivers Roberts (rap artist extraordinaire), her husband Scott, and their 9th Ward neighbors. All were trapped in New Orleans during Katrina, and [...]
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