Hurricane Katrina caused thousands of people to evacuate to Texas, leaving behind their homes and belongings in Louisiana. The devastating storm caused over $200 billion in economic loss, making it ...
Across the Southeast, hurricanes dominate conversations from June through September. But this year feels different—it marks the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s devastating landfall in ...
NEW ORLEANS — It’s been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina slammed the Gulf Coast as a Category 3 storm. The disaster is remembered not just for its winds, but for the crushing surge of water that ...
Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005, with wind gusts exceeding 130 mph and a surge of water taller than a two-story building. The water left the coast in ruins and swelled through ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the lessons learned from that catastrophic storm continue to shape how one of America's largest healthcare ...
“We Came to Rebuild New Orleans: Stories of the Hurricane Katrina Volunteers” by Christopher E. Manning, LSU Press, 308 pages, and “Rebuilding New Orleans: Immigrant Laborers and Street Food Vendors ...
Feature / Twenty years after Katrina, the cultural workers who kept New Orleans alive are demanding not to be pushed aside.
Twenty years ago this week, and just short of one month after Hurricane Katrina destroyed parts of the Mississippi coast and put New Orleans under water for weeks, the unthinkable happened: An even ...
In the years after Hurricane Katrina, when the Mahalia Jackson Theater was still out of commission, the New Orleans Ballet Association performed in Dixon Hall on the Tulane University campus. In 2008, ...