Daily Archives: August 27, 2025
This is criminal: How Katrina was used to drive Blacks from New Orleans
A first-person account republished for Black Agenda Report’s 20th‑anniversary Katrina coverage, Malik Rahim’s “This Is Criminal” says government failures and racial neglect — from faulty levees to withheld rescues and armed vigilantes — turned Hurricane Katrina’s devastation into a manmade catastrophe for Black and poor New Orleanians, and Rahim’s update recalls how grassroots volunteers and the Common Ground Collective mobilized thousands to provide lifesaving aid amid official abandonment.
Rotting from the coast in: Sea Scouts displaced, waterfront in decline
San Francisco’s once proud maritime edge is unraveling — one pier, piling and wharf at a time. Now, even the youth are feeling the fallout.