“What makes a disaster a tragedy? A tragedy is when we fail to do what we should be doing.” This is how New Orleans community organizer Malik Rahim prefaces the calm before “Hurricane Katrina: Race ...

This week marks the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, one of the deadliest and costliest storms in U.S. history. As officials and survivors reflect on the devastation, questions about disaster ...

The day after Hurricane Katrina hit, Lynette Boutte was part of a group of women and children forced to leave the salon where they were sheltering at gunpoint What followed was a long journey to ...