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Disappearing acts: reflecting on New Orleans 10 years after Katrina

  • Written by: The Conversation
imageAn abandoned street in the Lower Ninth Ward in August 2006. . REUTERS/Lee Celano

In this season of anniversaries, no two are more stark in their parallels than Ferguson a year after the shooting of Michael Brown and New Orleans 10 years after Hurricane Katrina killed 1,800 and displaced thousands.

Both involve the senseless loss of black lives and...

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