Hope Beyond the Storm: Katrina 20 Years Later

Hope Beyond the Storm: Katrina 20 Years Later

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina UM News offers a look back at people and churches affected by the devastating storm and their rebuilding efforts. They also feature still-hopeful survivors they visited recently in new stories, photos and videos.

Southern alumna, New Orleans native produces, directs documentary about Katrina's legacy 20 years later

BATON ROUGE — A lot of documentaries have come out in the past few months to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, including a special on WBRZ and a Hulu documentary from National Geographic.Despite how many documentaries that have been released over the years about Katrina, not many of the creators of these films and shows are from New Orleans. Even one of the most famous documentaries on Katrina — "When the Levees Broke: A Req…

20 years later: Survivors recall the storm that changed the gulf coast | Fox Wilmington WSFX-TV

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! NEW ORLEANS — It’s been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina slammed the Gulf Coast as a Category 3 storm. The disaster is remembered not just for its winds, but for the crushing surge of water that devastated rural Louisiana parishes and tore through the heart of New Orleans.  A woman searches through storm debris in Buras, LA, following Hurricane Katrina’s landfall on Aug. 29, 2005. The storm left wides…

20 years later: Survivors recall the storm that changed the gulf coast - NEW YORK TIMES POST

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! NEW ORLEANS — It’s been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina slammed the Gulf Coast as a Category 3 storm. The disaster is remembered not just for its winds, but for the crushing surge of water that devastated rural Louisiana parishes and tore through the heart of New Orleans.  A woman searches through storm debris in Buras, LA, following Hurricane Katrina’s landfall on Aug. 29, 2005. The storm left wides…

20 years later, impact of Katrina is still obvious at Tulane

Hurricane Katrina landed on Tulane University’s campus on Aug. 29, 2005. Twenty years later, Tulane’s enrollment has slowly rebuilt.   “In the Fall of 2004, just prior to Hurricane Katrina, overall enrollment at Tulane had been steadily increasing and had reached a total of 13,214 students,” said Sean Abbott, vice president for enrollment management and... The post 20 years later, impact of Katrina is still obvious at Tulane appeared first on Th…

Trombone Shorty Foundation’s Origins In The News As The World Looks Back On New Orleans And Hurricane Katrina

As New Orleans and the Gulf Coast remember Hurricane Katrina twenty years later, part of the focus has been on the positivity and support that eventually followed the devastating storm. And for a city so culturally important to American music, the post-Katrina work of Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews’s Trombone Shorty Foundation has become a bastion of keeping future generations involved in, and inspired by, traditional New Orleans music.