Hurricane Katrina left scars across Louisiana and Mississippi that are still evident 20 years later. Katrina claimed at least 1,392 lives — both during the storm and in its aftermath — and was America ...

Years After Katrina is a collaborative production presented by the Apollo Theater, the National Black Arts Festival, and ...

Spelman College joins the Apollo Theatre and the National Black Arts Festival in the creation of a series of plays about ...

Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast in 2005, leaving behind a trail of destruction and death in its wake. But even a decade after the costliest hurricane in U.S. history made landfall, it's still ...

Across the Southeast, hurricanes dominate conversations from June through September. But this year feels different—it marks the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s devastating landfall in ...

Hurricane Katrina began as a small weather system near the Bahamas on August 23, 2005, quickly strengthening into Tropical ...

Congress wants to address Americans’ apathy and cynicism about disaster preparedness in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, a Congressman said today. Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), chairman of the House Select ...

Houston and South Louisiana have a lot of commonalities, but no single thing may have united both places more than the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Twenty years ago this week, and just short of one month after Hurricane Katrina destroyed parts of the Mississippi coast and put ...

Tulane coach Jon Sumrall said that Northwestern denied his team’s request to wear white jerseys on Saturday to honor the 2005 Green Wave team. Friday was the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s ...

HOUSTON – When Jermaine Moore needs a haircut, he looks for barbers from New Orleans. At a Shaving Grace barbershop in the southeast Houston area, he's found one. "New Orleans barbers cut different," ...

Twenty years ago this week, and just short of one month after Hurricane Katrina destroyed parts of the Mississippi coast and put New Orleans under water for weeks, the unthinkable happened: An even ...