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More than 1,000 uninsured people showed up for a free health clinic at the city's Convention Center on Saturday -- some of whom were very sick but hadn't seen a doctor in years. Did the politicians notice? More...
A New Orleans resident facing eviction barricaded himself in his apartment last week and fired an assault rifle into his neighborhood. As Jordan Flaherty of Justice Roars reports, the incident highlights the housing crisis that's deepening in that city and others around the nation. More...
Is New Orleans' housing crisis a human rights violation? United Nations Special Rapporteur on Housing Raquel Rolnik will be in New Orleans this week gathering evidence. More...
Documents obtained by a watchdog group show a severe breakdown in U.S. Army Corps of Engineers management of its contractors tasked with clean-up projects in southern Mississippi in the aftermath of Katrina. More...
A federal appeals court in New Orleans has ruled that a class-action lawsuit brought against greenhouse gas polluters by Mississippi property owners who suffered severe damage in Hurricane Katrina may go forward. More...
President Barack Obama arrives in New Orleans today for his first visit to the city and region since his presidential campaign. But some local lawmakers and community leaders criticize the short visit and the lack of attention paid to the still struggling region. More...
Two weeks ago, a federal judge partially granted class certification in a lawsuit seeking to hold the Gretna Police Department and the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office accountable for their actions in the aftermath of Katrina. More...
Four years on, the federal investigation into the actions of New Orleans police officers in the days following Hurricane Katrina seem to finally be under way. More...
The Biloxi-Chitimacha tribe announced that rising seas would force it to leave the Louisiana island that's been home for generations -- the latest indigenous community uprooted by climate disruption. Is the U.S. really doing all it can to honor its obligation under international human rights standards to protect against such displacement? More...
A new report examines life in Louisiana four years after Hurricane Katrina, and finds that portions of the state's population experience health, education and income levels that the rest of the country surpassed three to five decades ago. More...
Rebuilding efforts in St. Bernard Parish outside New Orleans have gotten major acclaim by news agencies and public figures. But an alliance of Gulf Coast and national organizations are raising questions about the community's discriminatory housing policies. More...
Jury selection begins this week for one of the first trials over toxic fumes found in trailers and mobile homes distributed by the Federal Federal Emergency Management Agency following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. More...
Cities and towns across Mississippi are still trying to recover from hurricanes Katrina and Rita, but their efforts are complicated by what community advocates call misplaced priorities. More...
What took place in New Orleans following Katrina was no less than a war, in which victims whose only crimes were poverty and blackness were treated as enemies of the state, reports James Ridgeway. More...
This is the first year that Congressional leadership and the U.S. president did not travel to the Gulf Coast to honor the anniversary of our nation's largest disaster. Leaders in Washington still have much to learn from community leaders on the ground working every day to restore their neighborhoods, reports Jeffrey Buchanan. More...
Progress has been made on many fronts in the last few years, but New Orleans' housing crisis shows how federal and state policies have failed to help the region's most vulnerable residents rebuild. More...
Four years on, there's another victim face down in the waters of Hurricane Katrina: Dr. Ivor van Heerden. Investigative journalist Greg Palast reports. More...
The stories of post-disaster New Orleans are captured in a new book of photography by Joseph Rodriguez. More...
Stories of people surviving Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath continue to flood bookstores. More...
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