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A New Orleans journal.(Editorial)

Colorlines Magazine

| May 01, 2007 | Nguyen, Tram | COPYRIGHT 2007 Color Lines Magazine. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT when Jorge and I landed in New Orleans. The airport, vivid in my imagination from Spike Lee's film and other first-hand accounts by aid workers, was deserted at nine on a Friday night. From the moment we stepped outside the airport doors and found that we could not rent a car, to nearly a week later, lost and exhausted on the freeways as we straggled out of the city to our predawn departure flight--we were sucked into what felt like a maelstrom of troubles in the Big Easy.

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We'd gone there, my colleague Jorge Rivas and I, to report and photograph this issue's cover story about the struggle to rebuild ...

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