Remembering the Magnolia teaser from joshua bee alafia on Vimeo.
In January of 2010, Shantrelle P. Lewis, Art Curator and Director of Programs & Exhibitions at the Caribbean Cultural Center called on me to work on a documentary about the Magnolia Projects in New Orleans. Since then, we've been collecting past residents' accounts of their days living there. The story really reflects the larger story of the criminalization and ghettoization of public housing coinciding with the influx of heroin during the Vietnam War through the distribution of crack cocaine among the impoverished urban sector. Our team has included historian Dr. Yaba Blay and photographers Jati Lindsay and Abdul Aziz. Our next trip down will be for the 5th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
