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This piece was originally published on TakePart.com Ten years ago, the football team at O. Perry Walker High School in New Orleans was grinding confidently in the late-summer heat. The Chargers, as the team is known, had a deep bench of talented players...

Hurricane Katrina made landfall in the city of New Orleans on the morning of August 29, 2005, swept in by winds traveling at 127 mph. But the true damage came after the levees broke, when about 80 percent of the city flooded. At least 400,000 residents...

How New Orleans Has Lost 1/3 Of Its Black Population: Polices To Make People Disappear AFRICANGLOBE – To mark the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina this August, a conservative member of the Chicago Tribune’s editorial board, Kristen McQueary...

The poor of New Orleans--especially poor Blacks--suffered the brunt of the Katrina disaster in 2005, thanks to the criminal neglect of authorities at every level of government. Mike Davis is an author and activist whose books include City of Quartz...

<p>This week in New Orleans, plenty of people are trying to describe the post-Katrina state of the city. News cameras are crowding streets and sidewalks all over town, filming the saxophonist playing in front of Café du Monde and children playing...