"High School Friends"
This file appears in: Desire Neighborhood: Destroyed to build Desire Housing Development: A perspective from a former Desire neighborhood resident.
The tall man with the string bow tie is Joseph Narcisse. This was a great group of guys, and we ended up heading in different directions. Joseph enrolled at Louisiana State University at New Orleans, while I moved to California to attend Los Angeles City College. The other guy with the string bow tie in the picture is me, James Rachal. My brother, Phillip, standing next to me, is now deceased.
This file appears in: Desire Neighborhood: Destroyed to build Desire Housing Development: A perspective from a former Desire neighborhood resident.
Desire Neighborhood: Destroyed to build Desire Housing Development: A perspective from a former Desire neighborhood resident.
As a former resident of the Desire neighborhood, I am taking the opportunity to defend the integrity of our African-American community in the Upper Ninth Ward. These photographs depict our…