NPR

Audio Postcard: Magic's Katrina Relief Effort

Karen Grigsby Bates drops by a Los Angeles shopping mall to report on Hurricane Katrina relief efforts organized by former basketball star Earvin "Magic" Johnson. Many victims of Hurricane Katrina ...
NPR

Hurricane Katrina, 20 years later

September 8, 2025 • When New Orleans schools reopened after Katrina, most of the city's educators didn't get their jobs back. Instead, they were often replaced with young people who were new to town — ...
Berkshire Eagle

Melvin Cohea survived Hurricane Katrina. Berkshire County inspired him to tell his story in audiobook form

PITTSFIELD — After Hurricane Katrina forced Melvin Cohea and seven others to find refuge on roofs, they waited a day and a half before firefighters were able to reach them. But an older man had a dog ...
Ars Technica

20 years after Katrina, New Orleans remembers

Next month marks the 20th anniversary of one of the most devastating natural disasters in US history: Hurricane Katrina, a Category 3 storm that made landfall on August 29, 2005. The storm itself was ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Twenty Years After Hurricane Katrina, Many of Us Are Still Missing All That We Lost—and Grappling With One of the Country’s Worst Disasters

In Louisiana, heat and hurricanes can feel like a generational curse. After two decades, an editor who grew up in the state remembers and reflects on Katrina Kayla Randall | Digital Editor, Museums My ...
The Boston Globe

Several myths still surround the infamous Hurricane Katrina two decades later. Here are a few.

It’s hard to believe it’s been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast as a powerful Category 3 hurricane, ultimately becoming one of the most catastrophic and defining natural ...
Phys.org

Hurricane Katrina: Three painful lessons for emergency management are increasingly important 20 years later

Hurricane Katrina looms large in the history of American emergency management, both for what went wrong as the disaster unfolded and for the policy changes it triggered. As the nation looks back on ...