Ten years after the natural and human-made disaster called Hurricane Katrina nearly destroyed New Orleans, an award-winning film focusing on New Orleans children struggling to reach adulthood as they rebuild their lives and the city’s musical culture is being widely released on VOD platforms. THE WHOLE GRITTY CITY, an 89-minute documentary that plunges viewers into […]
New Orleans: Recovery or Removal?
NMA president to tackle women’s health, environmental illnesses and economic relief
WASHINGTON (NNPA) Leonard Weather Jr., M.D., R.Ph. has been named the 111th president of the D.C.-based National Medical Association, an organization representing more than 30,000 Black physicians around the nation and their patients. …..As a resident of Louisiana, with its many oil refineries, the devastation of hurricane Katrina, and the recent oil spill, environmental issues […]
CNN Commemorates the Fifth Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with Special Programming
This month marks five years since Hurricane Katrina roared ashore in Louisiana and Mississippi, killing over 1,800 people and displacing many more. Just as residents were rebuilding their cities and towns after the storm, the Gulf oil disaster has crippled the region’s fishing and tourism industries. CNN programming throughout dayside and into primetime will commemorate […]