In the pioneering spirit that forged Pontchartrain Park as a suburban-style mecca for black families in the era of Jim Crow, the leaders of an innovative rebuilding initiative stood Friday in the shadow of a home they see as a catalyst for restoring the neighborhood — and perhaps wide swaths of the rest of New Orleans — [...]
The New Orleans Katrina Museum has a number of organizations, local businesses and foundations on board that will broden The New Orleans Katrina Museum reach. First Thessalonians MBC of Bogalusa, LA 222 Entertainment Harlow Productions MOJO Doctors Who’s Next Marketing Dynamic producer MusicSupervisor.com Carnival Club Blaine Kerns Paper Dolls Crescent City Casino The Museum of [...]
Jobs, education, returning businesses and overall moral are just a few social and economic problems that still affect New Orleans six years later. The NOKM expansion will decrease some of these problems by creating new jobs and thru its programs, social and culture events. New Orleans’ economy driving force has always been tourism, which has [...]
222 Entertainment has teamed with NOKM to help raise money for the New Orleans Katrina Museum opening August 2011. UNITY will be regarded as one of the greatest albums in history and one of the most defining of the Eddie P catalogue. Upon its release (TBA), ”UNITY” will innovatively weave varying musical genres, instruments and [...]
In Bay Saint Louis, Miss., artist Lori Gordon has quite literally picked up the pieces in the wake of Hurricane Katrina… and is trying to make sense of the storm with bits of the rubble left behind. Gordon’s “Katrina Collection” is full of mixed-media collages that are meant for wall space in living rooms or [...]
1st Thessalonians Missionary Baptist Church is in phase 3 of the NOKM expansion and plans to move forward with construction pending funding. We expect to start construction in January. The New Orleans Katrina Museum is being formed by First Thessalonians M.B.C to provide the general public with a visual expression of hurricane Katrina through the [...]
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