BY FROMA HARROP Politicians, celebrities and the rich often set the world’s idea of their cities and regions. It takes a disaster to meet the regular folks. We met average Louisianans during Hurricane Katrina and the commoners from New Jersey and New York for Superstorm Sandy. Hurricane Harvey has introduced America and the world to ordinary Texans. And what the world sees is a multiracial society of victims and heroes joined by geography. It sees […]

Meeting The People Through Disaster
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