Looking back on New Orleans 20 years after Hurricane Katrina is a reminder that while such hazards may be natural, the death ...

Gina Phillips, a mixed media artist from the Lower Ninth Ward, transformed her life and art after losing everything in ...

The Hurricane Katrina memorial on the Claiborne Avenue neutral ground was the first thing visitors saw when crossing into New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward. It stood as a symbol of lives lost and a ...

The Ninth Ward community is pushing for neighbors to grow their own food since there is no grocery store in the area. Updated: 10:32 PM CDT Aug 24, 2013 Lower Ninth Ward strives to grow strong ...

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

During the storm, the Lower Ninth Ward was wrecked by wind, rain and flooding from a levee breach. In the 11 years since, the historic neighborhood has been slow to rebuild.

Some homes in the Lower Ninth Ward still bare the marks of recovery teams in 2005. There are scars - and signs of improvements, including the $14.6 billion upgrade to the city's levee system.

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 ...

Piles of garbage sit, August 8, 2007, in front of a Lower Ninth Ward house that was gutted two years after Hurricane Katrina flooded most of New Orleans, LouisianaCredit: Photo: Corbis ...

A man looks over the site of his home, destroyed in Hurricane Katrina, as a relative cuts weeds in the compound, in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Lousiana August 18, 2007.

Mixed media artist Gina Phillips, from the Lower Ninth Ward, like so many others, lost everything in Hurricane Katrina, 20 ...