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The Great Invisible: Hardluck City
In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary The Great Invisible, Roosevelt Harris of Bayou La Batre, Alabama, runs the truck ministry for the Hemley Church Mobile Food Pantry and provides food, encouragement, and advice to people displaced by the disaster. He calls the area “Hardluck City” as he drives around handing out food to grateful locals.
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