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How ‘Forever New Orleans’ whitewashed the city’s Black culture – Scalawag

Assetua Amenkun remembers very clearly coming back to New Orleans in September 2005, just a few weeks after Hurricane Katrina. She worked as a 911 dispatcher. “I had to come back early,” she said in an interview last year from her 7th Ward home. “And the city, oh my. It was just… beyond the devastation, beyond the physical devastation… There were no...