In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina swept through New Orleans and laid bare the city's shame: Deep racial segregation, intertwined with abysmal gaps between rich and poor, had left whole communities to drown in the storm's grasp. The following summer, nature's fury struck the opposite side of [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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