Independent journalist Jordan Flaherty was in New Orleans in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina first hit, and both supported and reported on relief efforts in the aftermath of the storm. Flaherty explains how Katrina’s devastation to the city’s infrastructure accelerated the existing dispossession of its primarily Black residents, how corruption and mismanagement in the years following the storm…
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