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Fats Domino’s Katrina-damaged grand piano restored
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A white Steinway grand piano salvaged from musician Fats Domino’s home after Hurricane Katrina has been restored and will be the centerpiece of an exhibit in New Orleans’ French...
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Community clinics reinvent health care in New Orleans
MSNBC – Like generations of New Orleans residents, 53-year-old Ruben Williams had known only one kind of health care before Katrina ravaged the city in 2005. You got it from Charity Hospital, a...
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8 years after storm, $872M in Katrina money unspent in Mississippi
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Eight years after Hurricane Katrina slammed the Gulf Coast, Mississippi still hasn’t spent almost $1 billion in federal money dedicated to recovery from the storm. The remaining...
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Few Katrina legal battles linger 8 years later
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A team of plaintiffs’ attorneys has spent roughly $16 million to sue the Army Corps of Engineers over levee breaches that flooded most of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Joseph...
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New trial upheld for 5 ex-cops in Katrina bridge shootings
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Five former New Orleans police officers deserve a new trial on charges connected to the deadly shootings of unarmed people amid the chaos that followed Hurricane Katrina, a federal...
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Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, another reminder #BlackLivesMatter
The tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina comes at a time when we must remind ourselves that #BlackLivesMatter, but black lives are not treated as equal, as worthy, or as human. Although it has been a...
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Racial disparities remain in New Orleans 10 years after Katrina
On the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans does not have a reason to celebrate, as the black community has not recovered. And the disparities between blacks and whites in that great...
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Post-Katrina, blacks are left out of recovery programs
Four days after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, Kanye West stunned TV producers and people across the country when he accused President George W. Bush of not caring about black people during a live...
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Obama makes up for his classic TV mixup by singing ‘Movin’ On Up’ from ‘The...
President Barack Obama is up to his singing ways again. On Thursday ,the president was touring New Orleans to mark the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina when he encountered a woman named Weezy....
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New Orleans celebrates its recovery 10 years after Katrina
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — With prayers, church bells and brass bands, residents across Mississippi and Louisiana will pay homage Saturday to those who died in Hurricane Katrina, thank those who came to...
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Wendell Pierce’s new memoir ‘Wind in the Reeds’ explores his New Orleans roots
Actor Wendell Pierce shared excerpts from his new memoir, Wind in the Reeds, with an enraptured audience this past weekend in Brooklyn, New York. Radio host Terrance McKnight hosted the intimate...
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Beyoncé’s Super Bowl performance brought the mood of Black America center stage
Beyoncé and Bruno Mars were a sight to behold at the Super Bowl 50 halftime performance. Did you ever think you’d see so much blackness, or so many Black Panthers in Afros at a halftime show? Or any...
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