When Shelton Alexander first purchased his mini Sony camcorder in 2004, his only intention was to record slam poetry. But after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans in August 2005, the poet ...
Two decades ago, before Hurricane Katrina inflicted unprecedented devastation along the Gulf Coast, before it killed at least 1,392 people and displaced hundreds of thousands, before levees failed and ...
New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region are marking the 20 year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which occurred on Aug. 29, 2005. The historic predominantly Black community of the Lower 9th Ward held ...
“God wanted me to be there,” Shelton Alexander says. "He wanted me to tell this story” Angelina Liu is an editorial intern at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in The Daily Texan and The Austin ...