NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast with catastrophic storm surge and flooding, New Orleans marked the storm's anniversary Friday with solemn ...
When Hurricane Katrina launched its assault on New Orleans in summer 2005, East Texans did the only thing we could – we helped. We welcomed evacuees. We made sure they had places to stay and had gas ...
“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 ...
Percy “Master P” Miller is bringing new life to the University of New Orleans basketball, starting with Lakefront Arena. Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina destroyed the arena’s original jumbotron, ...
Soon after Hurricane Katrina had passed, but long before the flood waters had receded, came the deluge of do-gooders. The rebuilding of metropolitan New Orleans involved around 500 new nonprofits (in ...