August 7, 2010

Poor New Orleans Neighborhoods Still Overlooked by Katrina Recovery Efforts

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Ada McMahon

LaTosha Brown says continuing inequities in the recovery effort are tied to “racism and classism.”

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Ada McMahon

LaTosha Brown says continuing inequities in the recovery effort are tied to “racism and classism.”

By Nicole Wallace

Heartrending images of New Orleanians, many of them poor and black, standing on rooftops and praying for rescue after the levees broke were a stark reminder of the very real consequences of the region’s historic race and class divisions.

Many nonprofit leaders had hoped the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina would serve as an opportunity to rebuild a more equitable Gulf Coast. But those visions have been largely unrealized, says LaTosha Brown, executive director of the

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