Two weeks after her marvelous performance in 20th Century Women was ignored by Oscar voters, Annette Bening has been cast in the second season of Ryan Murphy’s award-winning anthology series, American Crime Story. The follow up to last year’s The People vs. OJ Simpson will cover the aftermath of 2005's disastrous…
Ryan Murphy revealed details about the making of American Crime Story’s second installment, which will focus on Hurricane Katrina and feature George W. Bush and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as prominent characters.
I was 16 years old, a senior in high school, when Katrina devastated New Orleans. Like most teens my age, my biggest concern was what I was wearing to the weekend football game, or who was going to be my prom date. Who knew that when I left my home Saturday afternoon for what I considered a pretty standard hurricane…
Charles and David Koch, whose combination of right-wing extremism and endless income makes them two of America’s Most Notorious Thugs, are the subjects of a new retrospective that highlights how their construction and pipelines before Katrina, and their aggressive lobbying after it, helped worsen the damage to the…
Shortly after 8 AM on Sunday, August 29, 2005, the levees protecting New Orleans from the water that surrounds it failed. By 9 AM, the city’s Lower Ninth Ward was underneath six to eight feet of water.
In a piece for Fox News, President George W. Bush’s former special assistant argues that Bush should get more praise for his apparent miraculous role in the Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts.
Hurrican Katrina killed more than 1,833 people during the storm and in the subsequent flooding, displaced nearly half a million more, caused billions in damage, and left traumatic effects that linger on New Orleans and portions of the Gulf Coast to this day, 10 years later. Do we need to say this next thing? “Don’t…
On the first day of “Politicizing Beyoncé,” a Spring semester course at Rutgers, 32 young women and men sat in their desks, texting behind a Coach bag or catching up on Vlad TV’s rap posts on a laptop. It was February. I was dressed in jeans, Converse, and a giant sweatshirt, going for undergraduate realness, and here…
In her continued effort to keep it 100% real, 100% percent of the time, Ava DuVernay's next film will be about Hurricane Katrina.
SandyKatrina is a new Tumblr showcasing photos of Hurricane Katrina survivors holding up letters of encouragement for those suffering to get through the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
Just before the start of my second semester of college in New Orleans, of Louisiana fame, my dad, who had driven all the way from New Jersey with me, thus preventing me from listening to all the dance hall reggae I so desperately crave on a cross-country drive, had conversation with a scabrous Marriott bartender that…
Glenn Beck says maybe — just maybe — the recent earthquake in Japan was caused by people failing to follow the Ten Commandments. Let's take a look back at some other ridiculous right-wing claims about disasters.
Yesterday, the former President appeared on Oprah to discuss his memoir Decision Points. He went into detail about he could've done a better job in handling the Hurricane Katrina disaster, and how it "irritated" him to be called a racist.
This Italian Huggies ad reads, "You called her Elisa, but perhaps Katrina would have been better." Ah yes, a baby's incessant pooping is just like that natural disaster that killed thousands of people.
[New Orleans, August 29. Revelers dance along Royal Street in the French Quarter durning a funeral procession commemorating the 5th Annivesary of Hurricane Katrina. Image via Getty]
[New Orleans, August 29. President Barack Obama with daughters Malia and Sasha and first lady Michelle Obama order lunch at Parkway Bakery on the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Image via AP]
[New Orleans, August 29. Image via AP.]
Post-Hurricane Katrina, many unhappy married couples say they found it easier to start new lives, causing a 10% increase in New Orleans' divorce rate. "Instead of saying, 'I'm moving out, I'm packing,' we were already apart," explains one divorcée.
[New Orleans, August 29. Image via Getty.]
[Port Sulphur, Louisiana; May 13. Image via Getty]
