Hurricane Katrina

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October 5, 2025
Award winning producer Alisa Payne shared how she and Spike Lee created a Hurricane Katrina docuseries for the new generation.
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August 29, 2025
Katrina, which was a Category 3 hurricane when it made landfall in Louisiana on Aug. 29, 2005, remains the costliest…
February 20, 2023
Secretary Marcia Fudge tells theGrio the latest action by HUD, which takes effect in April 2023, is about “equity and…
September 12, 2022
The Inflation Reduction Act, the largest climate investment in U.S. history, doesn't do enough to protect our most vulnerable communities.
August 29, 2022
Not all the children who were traumatized by living through the hurricane and its aftermath had adults checking in on…
February 16, 2022
Warrant Officer Tatiana Julien of New Orleans was once rescued from the Superdome on a helicopter during Hurricane Katrina.
September 13, 2021
While America may not have created Hurricane Ida, it has certainly created the figurative storm of housing inequity and environmental…
August 29, 2021
Al Roker tells the "young punks" concerned he is too old to report live from Hurricane Ida to "keep up"…
January 27, 2021
EXCLUSIVE: The impact of climate change is felt by all across the country, but the most vulnerable to it are…
October 21, 2019
When Entertainment Studios chief Byron Allen purchased The Weather Channel for $300 million in 2017, he made headlines and became
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December 13, 2018
Two New Orleans residents, whose homes were built by Brad Pitt and his Make It Right Foundation following the Hurricane…
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August 30, 2018
An attorney plans to sue actor Brad Pitt's foundation, Make It Right, over the degradation of homes built in New…
September 1, 2017
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — As the murky flood waters of Hurricane Katrina were slowly pumped out of New Orleans in…
March 25, 2016
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Backlash against a plan to remove prominent Confederate monuments in New Orleans has been tinged by…
August 31, 2015
Ten years ago, almost to the day, Kanye West stood alongside an incredibly uncomfortable Mike Meyers during a live television
August 30, 2015
REPORT - This week, New Orleans native Lil Wayne shared his thoughts on the 10 year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
August 29, 2015
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — With prayers, church bells and brass bands, residents across Mississippi and Louisiana will pay homage Saturday…
August 28, 2015
President Barack Obama is up to his singing ways again. On Thursday ,the president was touring New Orleans to mark the
August 28, 2015
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Former President George W. Bush returned Friday to New Orleans — the scene of one of
August 28, 2015
Four days after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, Kanye West stunned TV producers and people across the country when he