New Orleans Liberation Academy: Community Stories - A People's History

New Orleans Liberation Academy: Community Stories - A People's History

Young Leaders Summer Street Festival of Learning "If I had a magic wand, what change would I bring to my community?" This is the question New Orleans Liberation Academy students and teachers participating in ATD Fourth World Movement - New Orleans "Young Leaders Training" explored together with young ...

Community Stories - A People's History What is the people's history of the Lower 9th Ward? What can youth learn from the elders of our neighborhood? What can the elders learn from the youth? On a hot day this summer, New Orleans Liberation Academy students spent their Saturday at the ...

Guerrilla Garden This summer we've been learning about gardening, growing food, and the importance of community by maintaining a plot at the Guerrilla Garden, a project of the Backyard Gardeners Network. We didn't start with much, just a small patch of dirt and some ...

Lower 9th Ward Street Library *"My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity." — **AL-HAJJ MALIK EL-SHABAZZ (MALCOM X)* For the past 6 weeks, in collaboration with ATD 4th World Movement, Judes Grove and the ...