Leona Tate Foundation for Change, Inc./Tate, Etienne & Prevost (TEP) Center — Attraction in New Orleans

The people here are amazing! The woman who greeted me at the door was so very warm. I'm not someone who cries in front of people but watching how people were treated during hurricane Katrina was like watching American leaders blatantly say "no we haven't changed how we feel about black people." I wasn't able to come help when volunteers came down cause my son was a baby but I think that sadness came pouring out while speaking with her. She handled me well. Lol you can tell they see these kinds of emotions there. They did a wonderful job educating you on everything that happened and some great history on mardi gras Indians and the 9th ward. Oh and personal opinion- if you want to help this wonderful organization, don't come in and dangle how you can help, your job title and that you just need to be persuaded. If you want to help then help. If you don't then well there is a reason for everything. White men with guilt and money don't help things by having long conversations about what they maybe can do. Maybe I'm being a tad harsh...

This is a small, simple museum but my wife and I were very impressed by it. It's just a few rooms with displays on the walls, but we found them compelling. They take you chronologically through the history of the Lower Ninth Ward, including 1927 when the levee was dynamited to flood the ward with water that New Orleans officials were afraid would inundate the parts of the city they considered worth saving. Lots of interesting and heartbreaking nuggets like that, as well as video interviews of locals. As small as it is, we spent nearly an hour there. The volunteer greeter was super nice. By the way, you can walk over the bridge to get there, but don't enter the bridge the way a car would. Walk in the alley on the side, at the end of which are stairs to a pedestrian path on the side of the bridge. At the end there's a passage where you can go under the road for a more direct route to the museum. Walking back, we found there's a path on the north side of...

Loved the idea and the people who run this make the review worth 10 stars. That being said, this living museum was set in a 9th ward house where some of the homes have been rebuilt but the museum itself has no artifacts. There are pictures and paragraphs typed and taped to a wall you could read, books that can be read, one blurry dizzying low quality cell phone or cam recorder home movie showing the rain accumulating the day before Katrina which is shown on a wall which has a fuse box and pipes on the same wall and visible. The last room has another video which was good quality that shows interviews of residents and their Katrina experience. If you do go, go for the message and the experience of being in the lower 9th ward, don't focus so much on seeing and experiencing a museum. Other than being in the actual environment and seeing the lower 9th ward you could save your time and watch a youtube video and get the same or better...