Just Whistlin Dixie: Katrina exposes crisis of Black Leadership Kazembe Balagun For many in the black community, the tragedy of New Orleans will be etched in our collective memory. More so, the sight of starving and homeless black people at the hands of a merciless government only confirms that America …
Hold the United States Accountable Ajamu Baraka The Black Commentator, September 15th 2005 In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the debate is already raging on how to deal with those displaced by the disaster and whether to rebuild New Orleans and other coastal communities. Competing interests combined with poor planning …
Barbara Bush: Things Working Out ‘Very Well’ for Poor Evacuees from New Orleans Editor and Publisher Staff September 5th 2005http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001054719 NEW YORK Accompanying her husband, former President George H. W. Bush, on a tour of hurricane relief centers in Houston, Barbara Bush said today, referring to the poor who had …
Hastert Questions Rebuilding New Orleans Associated Press, September 1st 2005 WASHINGTON — It makes no sense to spend billions of dollars to rebuild a city that’s seven feet under sea level, House Speaker Dennis Hastert said of federal assistance for hurricane-devastated New Orleans. Democratic lawmakers from Louisiana were quick to …
Katrina Didn’t Kill Those Africans – Uncle Sam Did! African Peoples Socialist Party, September 5th 2005 The African People’s Socialist Party condemns the abandonment by the U.S. government of hundreds of thousands of African people in New Orleans, in Mississippi, Alabama and the whole Gulf Coast area where they are …
Troops begin combat operations in New Orleans Joseph R. Chenelly Army Times, September 2nd 2005 NEW ORLEANS — Combat operations are underway on the streets “to take this city back” in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. “This place is going to look like Little Somalia,” Brig. Gen. Gary Jones, commander …
Eyewitness Report from New Orleans Gloria La Riva, Bill Hackwell and Caneisha Mills A.N.S.W.E.R., Septermber 6th 2005 September 6, 2005 On Saturday September 3, award-winning filmmaker Gloria La Riva, internationally-acclaimed photographer Bill Hackwell and A.N.S.W.E.R. Youth & Student Coordinator Caneisha Mills, a senior at Howard University, arrived in New Orleans. …
Left to Sink or Swim Tragic events in New Orleans have laid bare America’s bigotry and exposed the lie of equal opportunity Gary Younge The Guardian, September 5th 2005 The following correction was printed in the Guardian’s Corrections and clarifications column, Wednesday September 7 2005: “In the article below, we …
After Katrina, Where Have All the Hondurans Gone? Daffodil Altan Pacific News Service, September 13th 2005 HOUSTON–For several weeks now, consulates and relief organizations have been stumped. They don’t know where, exactly, the thousands of Honduran and Mexican people living in New Orleans went before and after the hurricane. “It’s …
Katrina’s Lesson: Self-determination for Blacks Everywhere Amadi Ajamu San Francisco Bay View September 20th 2005 NEW YORK – In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the hard lesson Black people have learned is the need for self-determination. Hurricane Katrina ripped through the heart of the Black Belt South, and thousands have …