The New Orleans Diaspora and the People Who Love Them

This project is new to me, but it looks great. In their own words:

During the Finding Our Folk tour, high school and college students supported by community elders and grassroots organizations toured America and visited cities where Hurricane Katrina survivors were displaced. The tour partnered with local and national community based organizations and learning institutions, to identify evacuees and the cities where they were, to develop curriculum and provide training for high school and college students to facilitate workshops and support the overall documentation of the tour.

In each city, we convened survivors and local community residents to share their stories, and to participate in the different tour activities. In selected cities, the day of learning and healing culminated in a large-scale celebration of the people and culture of the Gulf Coast region. These events allowed evacuees to share their journey through art and culture and featured performances by national and local performers, musicians, poets and visual artists, intertwined with speeches by veterans of the civil rights and current resistance movements.

They've got the Hot 8 on board, and have been organizing second lines in cities around the US. They've also got a bunch of documentation up on their website.

The tour will be in the NYC area over the next couple of weeks before heading to the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. They appear to have an email list and could probably use some support.