After New Orleans was ravaged 20 years ago, two places of worship teamed up to offer a space for devastated residents
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What has changed 20 years on from Hurricane Katrina? ○
Katrina was the costliest natural disaster ever recorded in the United States. How has hurricane forecasting changed since it struck?
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‘It’s a warning, set to a dance beat’: Jon Batiste on his new song urging climate action 20 years after Katrina ○
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The global music star, whose home town of New Orleans was devastated by the hurricane in 2005, says ‘people power’ can change the world
Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged his home town of Ne…
‘A gay Mardi Gras’: the lesbian pop-up bar in New Orleans that was born after Hurricane Katrina ○
Grrlspot, a monthly event in New Orleans, stemmed from a desire to create spaces for queer women to gather after the storm devastated the city in 2005
A few months after Hurricane Katrina struck Louis…
Katrina: Come Hell and High Water review – Spike Lee gets straight to the defiant, joyous soul of New Orleans ○
The finale of the Oscar-winning director’s three-part documentary about the biggest tragedy in 21st-century Black American history is a must-watch. It’s a stirring look at the city’s refusal to lie d…
‘You had to fend for yourself’: Hurricane Katrina haunts New Orleans as Trump guts disaster aid ○
As survivors and experts reflect on the storm 20 years on, fear is growing that the US is just as unprepared to take on extreme weather amid cuts to Fema
Darren McKinney grew up in New Orleans’s Lower…
From Katrina: Come Hell and High Water to KPopped: the seven best shows to stream this week ○
Spike Lee’s revisiting of the Katrina tragedy 20 years on is not afraid to call out the incompetence behind its handling. Plus, the likes of Kylie are tutored by South Korean music stars in a high-en…
Does it make sense for America to keep subsidising a sinking city? ○
Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans faces a different kind of risk
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‘There’s New Orleans before and after’: revisiting Hurricane Katrina in a new docuseries ○
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With the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaching, a powerful five-part docuseries, produced by Ryan Coogler, takes a look back at the many lives affected
Earlier this year, NFL fans from acr…
Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time review – a gripping, epic look at the New Orleans tragedy 20 years on ○
This powerful documentary is a devastatingly precise illustration of systemic failure, political impotence and media distortion. Even two decades later it feels relevant
What makes a disaster into a t…