This problem began in 1966 with the destruction of 500 homes, hundreds of businesses, and 400 oak trees along Claiborne Avenue in the Treme and 7th Ward neighborhoods of New Orleans.
Standing up against this environmental injustice has required me to fight at municipal, state and federal levels.
I first waded into this fight by writing an op-ed that publicly challenged former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu's decision to build a marketplace under the Claiborne Expressway.
The art of Paradise Lost | Paradise Found was designed to communicate with a community that doesn't normally sit at the decision-making table.
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