Return to the Big Easy: New Orleans’ grassroots revival
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Return to the Big Easy: New Orleans’ grassroots revival
More than 10 years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the city continues to move forward, tackling issues of education, employment and poverty. At the heart of this progress are local and grassroots movements, taking charge to create long-term change. Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric traveled to New Orleans to meet some of the community activists who are working to ensure that New Orleans will be better for the next generation.
You know, it’s better business. People are starting to realize that sustainability is something more than just a catch phrase.
Dana Honn, chef and owner of Café Carmo
At Southern University of New Orleans, the Honoré Center for Undergraduate Student Achievement is addressing two important challenges facing education in New Orleans: a low college graduation rate and a lack of teacher diversity in urban schools. In the Lower Ninth Ward, a community hit hard by Hurricane Katrina that is also a notorious food desert, Rashida Ferdinand of the Sankofa Community Development Corporation emphasizes the importance of health and wellness to the development of the community as a whole through community garden. In the French Quarter, third-generation restaurateur Dickie Brennan is training Nola’s next generation of chefs. Restaurants in New Orleans are also getting hooked — pun intended — on the sustainable seafood movement taking shape in the city.
