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'Tore us up': It's been nine months since Hurricane Ida, but hard-hit communities are still struggling, particularly with housing. Tristan Baurick spent time in Pointe-Aux-Chenes and beyond in this important look at the recovery process and the risks posed by another hurricane season.
Art and identity: One person calls it "the most intriguing painting in Louisiana history." A famous 19th-century artist was long thought to be a free Black man, conducting a successful career in slavery-era New Orleans. And, the artist’s masterpiece, a painting of two well-dressed Crescent City men — one White and one Black — was long thought to illustrate the mixing of races within families in the antebellum period. But the artwork’s backstory isn’t 100% clear, as Doug MacCash reports.
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