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Poll: Good marks for Obama on spill, more drilling
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Gulf of Mexico oil spill hasn’t stained President Barack Obama nor dimmed the public’s desire for offshore energy drilling, according to a new Associated Press-GfK Poll. While...
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Why the oil spill is not Obama's Katrina
This one could have been mailed in. Sarah Palin predictably knocked President Obama for, as she put it, failing to “dive in there” and solve the Gulf spill disaster. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and...
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Spike Lee screens new Katrina film in New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Film director Spike Lee screened portions of his follow-up documentary about Hurricane Katrina in front of a big crowd at Mahalia Jackson Theater in New Orleans. The premiere Tuesday...
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Slideshow: Devastation in Pontchartrain
Pontchartain Park, the oldest planned African-American middle class community in New Orleans, sustained some of the deepest flooding during the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe in 2005. For nearly two...
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Kanye compares Swift interruption to Bush's Katrina response?
From The BVX We all know that Kanye’s ego is out of this stratosphere but when he compares his interruption of Taylor Swift’s award acceptance to George W. Bush ignoring Hurricane Katrina, we have to...
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George Bush says he's 'not a hater,' forgives Kanye
NEW YORK (AP) — Kanye West now says he “didn’t have the grounds” to call George W. Bush a racist, and the former president said Wednesday that he appreciates the rapper’s regret. Bush appeared in a...
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Jay-Z defends Kanye West, takes jab at George Bush
NEW YORK (AP) — Kanye West may have backed away from his comment that “George Bush doesn’t care about black people,” but the biggest name in the rap game these days isn’t. Jay-Z says he agrees with...
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Jury convicts 3 officers in post-Katrina murder
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — For years after Hurricane Katrina, relatives demanded justice for Henry Glover, who was gunned down outside a strip mall in the storm’s aftermath. His charred remains turned up weeks...
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Shocking! Katrina shooting victim's skull still missing
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Rebecca Glover said her family could not have been more horrified by what happened to her nephew: He was shot by police days after Hurricane Katrina hit, then left to die in a car...
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New Orleans to boot residents from FEMA trailers
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The era of the FEMA trailer — a symbol of the prolonged rebuilding from Hurricane Katrina — might be drawing to a close in New Orleans. Citing the remaining 221 trailers as blight,...
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TheGrio's 100: Lolis Eric Elie, preserving NOLA history in multiple mediums
As writer and documentarian who has closely recounted New Orleans’ story for more than 15 years, Lolis Eric Elie’s passion for history and storytelling intersected with his home city’s destruction at...
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Ex-New Orleans mayor reveals Katrina 'secrets' in new book
New Orleans, almost six years after being devastated by Hurricane Katrina, is still working to rebuild. Former New Orleans Mayor, C. Ray Nagin, has penned a new book, called Katrina’s Secrets, which...
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Katrina funds spent on underused sewage plants
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — Officials in Mississippi took private property and spent tens of millions of dollars in Hurricane Katrina recovery money on sewage plants that may not be needed for decades, an...
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Hurricane Isaac steers clear of direct blow on New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hurricane Isaac sidestepped New Orleans on Wednesday, sending the worst of its howling wind and heavy rain into a cluster of rural fishing villages that had few defenses against the...
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Katrina victims take on hurricane tour operators
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Some New Orleans residents and city officials are pushing back against tour operators who bus out-of-towners into the city’s Lower 9th Ward, where Hurricane Katrina unleashed a wall...
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Bush’s FEMA director during Katrina hits Obama for responding to Sandy too...
Michael Brown, who gained infamy for his direction of the federal government’s response to Hurricane Katrina under President George W. Bush, has weighed in on President Obama’s response to Hurricane...
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Katrina’s scars harder to see as Super Bowl looms
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans has celebrated plenty of milestones on its slow road to recovery from Hurricane Katrina, but arguably none is bigger than hosting its first Super Bowl since the 2005...
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Audit says Katrina aid may have been misspent
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal investigators say as much as $700 million in federal aid intended to help some 24,000 Louisiana families elevate their homes after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 may have...
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Bush library exhibits include 9/11, war, Katrina, recount
DALLAS (AP) — A tour of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum begins in a bright area representing his early domestic agenda, but with one turn, visitors find themselves in a darkened room...
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Will the Bush library whitewash Hurricane Katrina?
What do former President George Bush and Taylor Swift have in common? Ok, I know this sounds like a bar joke complete with a not-suitable-for-work punchline, but I offer it as a real question. Stumped?...
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