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A Mississippi man has been arrested and charged with shooting and wounding three men in what prosecutors said was a racially motivated attack in Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath. Continue

The aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has resurrected a debate sparked by Kanye West after Hurricane Katrina, “”If you see a black family, it says they’re looting. See a white family, it says they’re looking for food.” With journalists in Haiti faced with survivors ransacking stores — should they avoid using the term looting? Continue »

There is no doubt that Hurricane Katrina was a storm of colossal proportions, a rarity even in the current climate of super-charged storm fronts, but it is the ruling of a judge that has given a target for all of those effected by the damage left in its wake.

In a monumental ruling, U.S. District Judge Stanwood R. Duval declared that the government, via negligence on the part of the Army Corp of Engineers, is directly responsible for many of the issues that people encountered after the winds settled. Continue…

For some months, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has been scrutinized for the dispersal of trailers heavily laced with formaldehyde to Katrina victims. FEMA knew of the toxic problems that are believed to cause cancer, two moths after the hurricane; however, they failed to run tests for two years.  Continue »

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Thousands of make-shift homes housing hurricane victims will be vacated next month, which means some folks will end up homeless:

The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency distributed the one-, two- and three-bedroom structures to temporarily house displaced victims of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Continue »