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This is criminal: How Katrina was used to drive Blacks from...

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.