Nation Topics - Donnell Herrington | The Nation

How we remember Katrina is how we'll prepare for future disasters. Getting the story straight matters for justice—and for survival.

Our investigation into the shootings of African-Americans in the days after Hurricane Katrina seems to have gotten the feds' attention; but in New Orleans, the wheels of justice have rusted.

Television news reports are casting new light on the violence that
flourished in New Orleans in the anarchic days after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

After a report in The Nation revealed how white residents of New Orleans shot at African-American men in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the city's police will launch an investigation.

White vigilante justice tore through New Orleans after the storm. But no official investigation has shed light on the violence.