Wendell Pierce

Well, it was it was all of our teachers live in the neighborhood, too.

So the worst part about it is, you know, I would come home from school or come home from the playground.

And my mother is sitting there with my second grade teacher and my third grade teacher and my fourth grade teacher.

And they're having their cocktails after work.

So all of my teachers I would see on a regular basis.

You couldn't get away with anything.

I couldn't get away with anything.

But it was great.

It was great.

The community.

And totally destroyed by Katrina.

One of the deepest parts of the flooding.

And I knew how it was.

first built the civic advocacy that constructed Pontchartrain Park and the civil rights movement led by A.P.

Turow, one of the great civil rights lawyers of New Orleans and my parents' generation.

So I put out a clarion call to our generation after Katrina saying, we owe it to them.

You know, we owe it to them to rebuild it.

And so we have rebuilt it.

Our neighborhood, brick by brick, block by block, house by house, and Puncher Train Park is back.

I led an effort, and we rebuilt 40 homes.