Refers to the Williams Brothers and Lil Wayne and a handful of other successful artists who escaped from the projects of New Orleans.

Louisiana is the world’s prison capital

Read this book to understand prisons & race:

After the Federal Levee failures destroyed much of New Orleans in 2005, there was a lot of talk about not rebuilding the city. As of 2013, the city is in some ways recovered (see New Orleans East for exceptions), but a new blight is now occurring in outsiders moving into the city and trying to erase New Orleans' culture and replace it with their own idea of what New Orleans should be. As most of these newcomers are also white, the ethnic make up of the city is also threatened.

Hurricane Katrina

8.29.05 Never Forget.

In contrast to the cultural icons previously mentioned that make New Orleans unique, the city is the murder capital of the nation. And the death toll is highest in African-American males.

Mardi Gras

Second Line

Second Line

Congo Square

Anne Carson did say this and she said it in Red Doc>