Collecting and Preserving the Stories of Katrina and Rita

The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University and the University of New Orleans organized the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank (HDMB) in 2005 in partnership with many national and Gulf Coast area organizations and individuals. HDMB was awarded the Award of Merit for Leadership in History, and is the largest free public archive of Katrina and Rita with over 25,000 items in the collection. Read More.

Portrait & Narrative of ADH

Collection

Post-Katrina Portraits, Francesco

Charcoal portrait of ADH. Text begins: \"This, I, come/s from love...\" Narrative includes rap poem. \r\nPoem begins:\r\n\"You know we stormed through those flood gates thinking we could come here and save this place/\r\nthinking we had the space/\r\nthe face/\r\nto save these souls from their wretched fate\r\nBut 50 bux and 2 guns ain\'t much more than our pops once used to colonize this place...\"