Take a look at how the demographics of New Orleans have shifted.
In one of Katrina's most gruesome chapters, Henry Glover was shot and set on fire.
A $133 million program is focused on rebuilding housing.
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Wins Injunction in Post-Katrina Housing Discrimination Case
(PR Newswire) — Today the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbiaissued an injunction protecting funds from the Road Home Program so that displaced homeowners can have an opportunity to show that Louisiana and HUD have distributed recovery funds in a discriminatory manner. The Road Home program is an $11 billion federally-funded program established by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) […]
As the black population decreases...
(CNN) — From the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico to Washington, critics charge that the Obama administration didn’t act fast enough after the April 20 oil rig explosion and subsequent spill. Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh called the incident “Obama’s Hurricane Katrina.” A Palm Beach Post editorial stated that Obama “acted […]
A Post probe found scant evidence that New Yorkers Organized to Assist Hurricane Families (NOAH-F), founded by Queens Rep. Gregory Meeks, did much of anything at the Radisson Hotel in Queens, which housed roughly 200 Katrina evacuees for months. The group raised at least $31,000 but, according to tax records, doled out only $1,392. Read […]