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You may not immediately remember the face of this cute little boy, who looked directly into the NBC-TV camera and spoke so eloquently about his surroundings at the New Orleans Superdome during one of the most devastating events his hometown, New Orleans, had seen. Well, you certainly wouldn’t recognize Charles Evans today. A lot can […]

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When I saw the caption that read New Orleans under water,  I knew nothing would ever be the same.  I was in Los Angeles, and called home with one instruction to my daughter:  Leave! When I found out that she and the rest of my people were still in New Orleans, I wanted her to […]

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A city known to many tourists as “The Big Easy” hasn’t quite lived up to its name over the past 10 years for many New Orleanians. For some, it has been everything but an “easy” time to say the least. On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina changed the lives of many citizens in neighboring gulf […]

Phyllis Montana LeBlanc talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about the anniversary “I need Mayor Landrieu to stop telling the lies. We’re not back, that ain’t true. We’re back 50 percent. When you go into the lower ninth ward, which I did yesterday, it looks like Katrina just happened yesterday. Now we’re dealing with […]

It was so different back then. No Twitter, no Facebook, there weren’t even any smart phones.  So when news of the storm hit while we were taping our TV show in Los Angeles, we found out the old-fashioned way…on the news. We loved New Orleans, and all the cities on the Gulf Coast.  Since the […]

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Sivi Domango, 44, was the Dean of Students/Assistant Principal at the New Orleans Charter Middle School in New Orleans when she heard reports of Hurricane Katrina’s imminent landfall. She and her family didn’t pay it much mind at first, even her mother, a Ninth Ward resident and survivor of Hurricane Betsy who was usually extra cautious. […]

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Yes, we’re still here. There’s no more waters flooding the city, drowning people in their own homes. No more human beings on top the rooftops after digging a hole through their homes to escape the rising waters, 20 feet in some areas of the city. When I think of the progress that has been made […]

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Visiting residents on tidy porch stoops and sampling the fried chicken at a corner restaurant, President Barack Obama held out the people of New Orleans on Thursday as an extraordinary example of renewal and resilience 10 years after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. “There’s something in you guys that is just […]

Soledad O’Brien is everywhere, you ain’t never there. That’s a Jay-Z lyric, but it seems appropriate for the enterprising reporter who manages to be everywhere the news is made. So the on-air murders of a Virginia news reporter and her cameraman truly hit home. “This was just a horrific case of a guy who was armed […]

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It’s been said that memories are retained depending on their value. Hearing something like this makes you think highly of those vivid images of past times that seem to remain embedded in your mind yet it’s the adverse memories that tend to affect us the most. I share memories with thousands of residents of southern […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says New Orleans is “moving forward” a decade after Hurricane Katrina dealt it a devastating blow, and has become an example of what can happen when people rally around each other to build a better future out of the despair of tragedy. Obama was marking the storm’s 10th anniversary […]