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Nola Sustainability
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A collection of the featured stories focusing on New Orleans biodiversity.
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Rasheeda F 0:2
I'm Rasheeda Ferdinand, I'm the founder and CEO of Sankofa. I Work with a fabulous team of staff members, partners, advisors, friends and colleagues, that I'm really honored to be a part of and say, we've all made this possible together for so many years. I want to just share out a little bit about our relationship with Ed. We've actually been working with them for about eight years. Since 2015,
community gardening is a communal healing experience. Alright?
Pamela Broom 1:02
Don't get me wrong. It's hard. Sometimes and it gets a little hot. I was out at the pharmacy this morning. And one of my well, two of my staff members came out to help me put up some signage and these are young women. They say, Pam bless you. This is what you do. Yes, this is what I do. This is what I do. And this is what I want to inspire. And the I believe that I'm a living example of training a child when she is young. And when she's old. She will not depart from her training. I started actively gardening at eight years old, in the front yard and a plot not much bigger than this. And so I have carried that with me. Throughout my life. Everywhere. I've gone I've never been trained formally in agriculture. I remember one time I was talking to a group and a young man, he was a northerner and so Miss Pam, what do you do about pH? I'm like, I you know, I know about acidity and alkalinity and all that. It means put your hands in your hands. So I'm so happy to be here. Always happy to partnerships that we can create. We can get somebody started. Pamela Broome, I'm the seventh Ward revitalization project manager with new Corp Incorporated. New court is based in the seventh Ward neighborhood of New Orleans. It's a small business development entity 501 C three, Community Financial community development financial institution that provides loan products and services to small minority and women owned businesses. And my job primarily with the seven port revitalization project is overseeing wellness aspect of the program. So the pharmacy, a wellness hub. So in partnership with Sankofa we focus on providing opportunities for community members to garden to learn how to grow, to learn how to market and consume fresh, healthy and affordable produce
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My Nola, My Story: The People's Garden
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Tyana Jackson
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People’s Garden Event Hosted by Sankofa and USDA
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Interview of Pamela Broom, a contributor to the lower ninth ward rehabilitation, at the People's Garden event.
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My Nola, My Story via YouTube
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Mass Communications department at Xavier University of Louisiana
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September 1, 2022
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Rashida Ferdinand
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My Nola, My Story
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A Digital Humanities project by Xavier University of Louisiana's Mass Communication department students, led by Dr. Shearon Roberts
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Nola Sustainability
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Yeishka Montalvo: And my name is Yeishka Montalvo, I am the climate and tour fellow at the water collaborative and I'm also spearheading the brackish water collective art collective. Thank you for having me.
Camerin Kimble: I'm happy to have you. So let's start. What kind of work does the water collaborative mainly do?
Yeishka Montalvo: So the water collaborative is an environmental like climate justice organization centering around water equity issues in the Greater New Orleans region. We seek to ensure a lifetime of living thriving with water and loving water for every resident that lives here in the city. And we envision an inclusive network of communities that come together to make sure that New Orleans is climate resilient, and it can thrive with all of the water that we deal with on our day to day with storms and rising sea levels, etc. I am the climate and tour fellow at the water collaborative. We are going to be launching a tour company within the organization to give climate and environmental justice related tours to people visiting Orleans or just locals living in the area, around water equity, around storm water management, around issues related to Katrina and past environmental disasters and how this city has adapted and moved forward from those things and what our plans are for the future.
Camerin Kimble: Wow, okay. How exactly do you think water has damaged the relationship that it has with people of New Orleans?
Yeishka Montalvo: Yeah, so as I had mentioned before, water is one of the biggest challenges and threats to human life in the southeast and especially along the Gulf from tropical storms to rain events, aging infrastructure like I had mentioned, it's, it's, it's damaged, it's damaged our communities, especially the most vulnerable ones and in that regard. And so that's why it's so crucial that organizations like the water collaborative and other networks that we work with work collaboratively to develop, you know, innovative solutions to these issues. And you know there's, there's so much water around us, so we have to learn how to how to have a relationship with it in a way that is regenerative in a way that is sustainable for both us and the water, you know, and there's so entire industries that depend on it, fisherfolk tribal nations, you know, different laborers and farmers, the seafood industry. Everything about our city is tied to water, and so we need to learn how to live with it. Yeah.
Camerin Kimble: If you don't mind, could you kind of like, go into detail about how the relationship begins to reform, with the people?
Yeishka Montalvo: Yeah. So for instance, I guess I could go into more detail with like the artists collective, specifically, but we're basically going to be using the arts, as a way to turn the lens on this relationship we have with water and recognizing that water is our most precious resource, its life giving and life taking. It is very challenging. And so, with all of the aging infrastructure, with all of this climate change and stronger storms etc., people here hate water. It's really traumatic for them, it is triggering for them. There's a lots of painful memories tied to water in this city and so we want to use this artist collective as like as a way to channel, some healing for our communities here, and just using visuals and arts to kind of change our view of it in a tangible way, in a way that we can like envision a future with it positively and not painfully. But we also do lots of other projects to, to mitigate that that challenge. So, but the brackish artist collective is just one way. And then the tour company, that's just like our educational channel, where we give people history tours and lessons and and teach them about the infrastructure and why it's aging and what we need, and because knowledge is power and like, you know, if we don't know what to do, then we can't really change anything. So, that's our goal with the tour company as well.
Yeishka Montalvo: So, the water collaborative builds sustainability and shows others how to live sustainably through education and policy specific work. So education meaning educating residents in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region about flood solutions resources like storm water management pertinent research, and more. And then on the policy side we work with, city, state, and federal workers and elected officials to support their understanding of water management and further policy measures to support the urban water sector in their growth and, and sustainability.
So utilizing that membership rate base of ours, we create policy recommendations to advocate for the support for these changes and doing so, also, specifically, special emphasis on protecting vulnerable communities most at risk to these to these issues so.
Yeishka Montalvo: I was just saying there's a lot of urgency to be committed to this type of work right now, especially living in the Gulf south, because we are among the most impacted by climate change and climate disaster as you saw this summer, there was like 5, 6, 7 different threats of hurricanes, just, you know, back to back, and that's not normal. That is not, and it's, it's, it's weird, calling it a natural disaster because it doesn't really feel like it's natural at all. It's because of the infrastructure, it's because of the negligent like policy, that is harming our planet in our homes, it's, it's because of so many reasons that our human, manmade. So, we are contributing to this problem and so it's up to us to really step up and use our resources and use our collective power and our communities to make a positive change and make it so that we can live on this earth and in New Orleans for years and years to come and our kids to and their kids too. And in that is, that's the goal. So, and it's, it affects everybody. Everybody has a stake in this so I guess I'll close with that.
For anybody listening, that if you want to contribute to this cause and into this movement the time is now, and there's plenty of resources to do that.
Camerin Kimble: Thank you for your time, and that was some great stuff that you said. I just want to thank you so much for this interview, and everything you've done with the collective.
Yeishka Montalvo: Thanks so much for having me I'm really excited to have you part of the team, and we'll work together some all moving forward.
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9:33 ( nine minutes and thirty-three seconds)
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Camerin Kimble
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Camerin Kimble
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Water in New Orleans
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Camerin Kimble
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New Orleans and Its Relationship with Water
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This interview captures the effects water has had on communities throughout New Orleans and how it has affected livelihood as well.
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My Nola, My Story via Youtube
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Mass Communication Department at Xavier University of Louisiana
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30th April 2021
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Camerin Kimble
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My Nola, My Story
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My Nola, My Story 2021
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Joy Eddy: Hello My name is Joy Eddy and I am a first-year student here at Xavier University of Lousiana. I am here with Reverend Turner. Would you like to introduce yourself and tell us a little about yourself?
Rev. Dr. Turner: Certainly. My name is Rev. Dr. Theodore Turner Junior. I am the pastor of Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church in Boothville, Louisiana. Have been for the past 22 years. And I’m also an employee of Plaquemines Parish Detention Center. I serve as the Chaplain in this facility. That’s basically the panorama of my current standing.
Joy Eddy: Thank you so much for that statement. And thank you even more for agreeing to do this interview. Would you like to get started?
Rev. Dr. Turner: Yes. Indeed.
Joy Eddy: Would you please describe your experience with Hurricane Katrina.
Rev. Dr. Turner: Huh. Well. To. To make an understatement, to say it was traumatic, um, is an understatement. Um, the entire event has left all of us with what I believe, all of us who experienced the effects of it, particularly in our area, um, with some sort of, um, hurricane PTSD *laugh* uh there is so many, so many things, emotional things, we experience. Even today, as we drive through our communities and notice many factors are out of place, people are out of place, and things of that nature, but nevertheless our desire to live here, our motivation to continue to create a society capable of sustaining a good life, is greater than anything that we have experienced.
Joy Eddy: Thank you so much. How did the Hurricane impact the way that you see life?
Rev. Dr. Turner: It certainly, um, it taught me that there are things that are beyond my control. And therefore I need to have someone in my life who has control of all things and so in that regard it strengthened my faith in God. Who in spite of the difficulties we face and experience, has sustained us and supplied us with the essentials that we need for life.
Joy Eddy: Thank you. Did you return to NOLA after Katrina? Why or why not?
Rev. Dr. Turner: Well, first of all, I live 75 miles south of New Orleans, so New Orleans is a whole ‘nother world in comparison to where we live. And also yes, I returned immediately, I remember the night that our community was being devastated by the hurricane. I was watching it on a big screen TV at United Methodist Church right there on Trenton Boulevard in your area (Ruston, LA) and we were watching it on a giant screen TV. And the pastor asked me then, um, what are my intentions now that my community is destroyed. And I said “well I’m waiting on the winds to die down and the waters to subside so that I can go home.” There was never any doubt that I wanted to come back home and I was gonna come back home if the government allowed us to come home. So yes, immediately, I wanted to come back home and it was about 6, well 4 to 6 weeks later when we were allowed to get back home and I was able to see that the community and the devastation that we had experienced.
Joy Eddy: I know that you stated earlier that New Orleans, I mean the New Orleans area and other communities that were devastated by Katrina never really fully recovered but, do you think it ever will?
Rev. Dr. Turner: Well that’s gonna be determined by the powers that be. And when I say that I’m talking about government entities and also businesses who have a desire to invest in this area because now just like the potential for natural disaster exists, as it does everywhere, there’s no safe place in the world, is exempt from the possibility of natural disasters but now because crime is so rampant people are hesitant about the New Orleans area in particular. But here in our community that’s not a factor, its just that industry has divested itself of our area and people who live here are being, are being somewhat inventive in taking advantage of the lay of the land by *inaudible* their resources personally and running their businesses, well the few businesses we have here themselves. So we’re gonna, we’re sustaining ourselves here and I don’t know if, I know we won’t ever be back where we were because I’d say 60, 60 to 70% of the people are gone that we grew up with and were here, to begin with.
Joy Eddy: Thank you. Did Katrina impact your career?
Rev. Dr. Turner: Not really because prior to working for the sheriff’s department I worked for a tugboat company. I was a compliance officer for a tugboat company. So all of this is oilfield work and it’s been the hub for some time, of the oilfield industry. We always have employment here. A lot of that work has shifted to the west post-Katrina and also because there are some other issues in the area. Inadequate planning by local government to take advantage of their chance to grow the industry here. But no, I’ve always had employment and always found employment and I think in my entire career, 50 years of working from a little boy up till now, I’ve never been without a job more than three weeks so I’ve always managed to find something that was conducive to what I wanted to do.
Joy Eddy: Thank you. This is the last question. What is the overall message that you want the public to realize about Katrina?
Rev. Dr. Turner: That these disasters could happen at any time and any place. That we, we, people need to be more sensitive and compassionate for people who go through these disasters and less judgemental because there was a time when people criticized us are returning home stating that was gonna happen again only for those critics to themselves face, some of them later faced similar disasters and they did just what we did, return back to their homes. So, always be compassionate, have compassion. I also found on the flip side of that, that many people in many areas open their arms and their purses and aided many people in this area. There were several groups of nonprofits that helped us to recover, in a recovery process, for which I was able to work with. There were many of those types of people who, who tried to help people. So, people need to be compassionate more than anything, continue to be compassionate, and I found that people are, but there are those negative persons who want to dictate to people where to live and how to live, who sometimes can dry up well support for people who are in need. We never asked for a handout. And I’m sure you’ve heard this expression before, “all we need is a hand up”. I’m one of these people who love pop music, um popular music and there was an old musician who said it like this “I don’t want nobody to give me nothing, all I need you to do is get out of the way and let me get it myself” and that’s how we can make it.
Joy Eddy: Thank you so much.
Rev. Dr. Turner: Mhm. You are quite welcome. You are quite welcome.
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Joy Eddy
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Joy Eddy
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Lasting Effects of Katrina
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Hurricane Katrina
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This is an interview with Rev. Dr. Theodore Turner, a New Orleans native, Pastor of Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church in Boothville, Louisiana.
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My Nola, My Story via Youtube
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Mass Communication department at Xavier University of Louisiana
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6 May 2021
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Joy Eddy
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Nola Sustainability
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Joshua Clay
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Veonce Fisher
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The Effects of COVID-19: From the Perspective of the New Orleans Community
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COVID-19 and the effect it had on the community of New Orleans.
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The Effects of COVID-19: From the Perspective of the New Orleans Community by Joshua Clay is apart of My NOLA, My Story, a Digital Humanities project by Xavier University of Louisiana students Exponential Honors Program, coordinated by Dr. Shearon Roberts. This reports was filmed by Veonce Fisher and produced by Joshua Clay.
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Joshua Clay
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My Nola, My Story via Youtube
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Mass Communication Department at Xavier University of Louisiana
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Wednesday, May 05, 2021
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My Nola, My Story
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My Nola, My Story 2021
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Why Gumbo Garden
Chaun Hubbard: Why do you call it Gumbo Garden?
Glenn Caston: “Interesting so Morgan Redd and I we thought. So he started the food pantry in his room, Vincent's vault. So when we first started talking about this project we were like, we need to come up with a name that resonates around several values, and one thing I wanna value is diversity because that’s important to me, because there’s a diverse group of people who live at both sides of the Canal. Then we wanted a name that wasn’t just garden because what we thought about was collectively how do we come together as people? Black folks,people in this community, and New Orleanians come together over food and gumbo. Actually the meaning of gumbo is okra, which we have growing over there. But when we thought about it we were like, let’s just ask people. So many people make their okra in so many different ways depending on where you are in the city. For example you might make your gumbo with tomatoes, that we call a Creole, some people make it with a base like okra. Some people don’t use okra or tomatoes, they just use rue. So when we thought about it, and we were like that’s a name that can resonate with everybody,
because one thing is that we all used fresh produce in our gumbo in some way. That’s a way that we can come together in a diverse space without being so rigid about how we are, the name is really rooted in diversity and inclusion and equity and that's why.
Glenn Caston: “Then I really thought about how food can be liberating on some people,
I had heard tons of their stories about how they were depending on this produce and it saved them a bill”
“ I think that it’s our due diligence to be civically engaged in our community. We might not be able to help you with everything but we can help you with food production because everyone needs food to survive.
Glenn Caston: “So this is what we have now this is our summer garden. So these are squash and zucchini”
Chaun Hubbard: Oh wow
Glenn Caston: “Those open flowers turn into squash. “
Cultivating the Soil
Glenn Caston: “We did soil sampling on all of the soil. What you see here we kind of keep this for a demo to see what used to be here. So you can tell t if you look here there’s glass there’s all kinds of debris versus this soil, which is high in nutrients. It’s called compost, and we import this soil to Gumbo Garden. You’ll see that soil coming over here after we finish it off.
Also in doing soil samples what we learned was that the soil is high in toxins and lead, primarily coming from people dumping paint. So two facts about it on top of this land used to be a paint shop, so they were just dumping paint then they tore it down and it was a warehouse style ,like that over there, but those toxins were still in the soil.”
Glenn Caston: “So what we were doing essentially was still growing and still disseminating this produce which is not good. That’s what commercial farming is right, that is the definition of commercial farming. They don’t care about the soil, they don’t care about the land, and they don’t care about what they put on there, as long as they get the best fresh produce, well what they call “fresh”. They use these qualifiers that aren’t necessarily true. Well what we did was we did multiple iterations of soil testing, so we did over 50 test so each one of these beds we amend the soil and amend the soil , and remove soil. So were removing soil, and removing things and we were adding things.
Chaun Hubbard: “So when do you decide when they’re ready?”
Glenn Caston: “So these will kind of peak out of the soil, so the little tops will come out, sometimes. Sometimes you wont get a good one like this one is ok. These are short and sweet carrots, so what we have been doing with these carrots particularly is we have been packaging these carrots to make salad mix. S people can make their own salads at home”
Glenn Caston: “These are called Georgia collards right here. Mrs. Angie Brown on her request, because we do source the community to figure out what they want to see grown.”
Chaun Hubbard: “She requested collards?.”
“Yep! She wants her collard greens so she got her collards.”
Chaun Hubbard: “They look healthy!”
Glenn Caston: “Yep and they’re really good too.”
Chuan Hubbard “In the store sometimes you can tell by the leaves and those leaves look really healthy.”
Glenn Caston: “Louisiana Red Beans, so these will actually grow and trelles up here, and we have intentionally put these here so when the garden is closed we want community members to come and get fresh red beans if they choose from the fence, the same thing for those eggplants and those tomatoes over there.”
Chaun Hubbard: “So the community can just get what they want?”
Glenn Caston: “Yep! Whenever they want.”
Glenn Caston: “We got our white onions as you can see down here, Chase and I were talking about how you can tell if it's done. With the white onions the leaves slope over and the leaves start to die. If you want to smell that”
Chaun Hubbard: “MMmmm. Onion”
Glenn Caston: “It smells oniony right!”
How the Garden can affect Xavier Students?
Glenn Caston: “Like at least you can learn to grow your own food and what it means to be liberated economically. This piece of reconnecting with something and watching it grow. I think the best benefit is when students come and they plant something and they come and take care of it every two weeks. That's so transformational and they’re like “I really grew this''. And chase too, we went to the community center and gave this out, and physically seeing it. Not just you grew this and didn't even talk to the person who's gonna consume it.”
Chaun Hubbard: “And it's a need, it's a necessity and a need that's always going to be there.”
Glenn Caston: “And it's therapeutic to them too.”
Chaun Hubbard: “Yeah and I was just gonna say it's probably relaxing to be out here, away from all the noise”
Chris Hubbard: “Just to get away from school”
Gumbo Garden’s Impact
Glenn Caston: “I'm always thinking about what VP Wright asks us, “If Xavier were to leave today what would the community miss” and I think right now we are moving to this phase where they're gonna miss the garden. If we left today, they would miss the garden, we aren't leaving but still this is something that I think the community is starting to resonate with. Now we just have to maintain it and keep it sustainable and growing, but the hard part of the work happened this year. That was the importing of the soil and all that stuff. Now we’re at a stage where we’re not doing thousands of hours of work to get something up and running.
The next stages of Gumbo Garden
Glenn Caston: “ The next stage of the project though is really talking about aesthetics part of it because that's important. It's not equally important as food production right, but it is important because what I hope to obtain from this is community gathering spaces where this becomes that space where community members can come together and create solutions for their community. Mrs. Angie Brown, everyday she comes and tells me about this step that has been broken and she’s almost 100 years old and she crosses this bridge with this broken step because she wants to catch this bus and go places because she’s tired of being in the house. I would too. Although it feels like such a small problem it's such a large problem for her. She made a point she said “ They would not do that in Lakeview”. I said “You’re right Mrs. Angie Brown they wouldn’t. They would not just leave that step broken and shattered.” “I wanna host events, I wanna do the event side of social justice and inclusion. Where people are sitting and talking and doing this good work, and finding solutions for their community. But it's hard when it’s not aesthetically pleasing, and it’s hard when you don't want anybody to get hurt. What cause can we talk about together in a space that liberates us to be free from some of the problems because largely in part the community has been forgotten.”
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9 minutes and 28 seconds
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Chase Hubbard
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Chase Hubbard
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Gumbo Garden: Impact over Aesthetics
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Chase Hubbard
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Xavier University's Gumbo Garden
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An interview with Glenn Caston, a social justice and inclusion officer at Xavier University, as he takes Chaun and Chris Hubbard around the garden for the first time.
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My Nola, my story via Youtube
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Mass Communication department at Xavier University of Louisiana
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May 2, 2021
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Chase Hubbard
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My Nola, My Story
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My Nola, My Story 2021
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English
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A Digital Humanities project by Xavier University of Louisiana's Mass Communication department students, led by Dr. Shearon Roberts
Community Garden
Social Justice and Inclusion
Xavier University of Louisiana