It was 20 years ago today, that disaster struck for millions in New Orleans due to Hurricane Katrina.

A disaster that could've been prevented.

https://blackagendareport.com/why-we-remember-katrina 

Hurricane Katrina first struck the United States on August 25, 2025 making landfall in Florida as a Category 1 hurricane, the least powerful storm in that designation. But after being downgraded to the category of tropical storm, it gained strength as it traveled into the Gulf of Mexico and again reached hurricane status, making landfall again in Mississippi and Louisiana on August 29, 2025. 

Residents of Mobile, Alabama, Gulfport and Biloxi, Mississippi, and New Orleans and other Louisiana cities were all devastated by the storm surge. Twenty years later when we think of Katrina it is the images from New Orleans, where large portions of the city are below sea level, which come to mind. Those who were unable to evacuate were stranded and the levees which were constructed to protect New Orleans were either topped by the storm surge or gave way altogether. The Lower Ninth Ward, home to a majority Black population, was flooded. The official number of deaths caused by hurricane Katrina was 1,392 people, mostly in Louisiana and Mississippi, but also in Alabama and Florida.