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Cop pleads guilty to massive murder cover-up during Katrina

March 8, 2010 By Tim Wheeler

A New Orleans police lieutenant pleads guilty to spearheading a massive cover-up of murder and violence committed by police in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Port Chicago disaster remembered

July 24, 2009 By Special to People’s World

320 men died on July 17, 1944, in a munitions explosion aboard a ship being loaded at the Port Chicago Navy Magazine with armaments bound for the war in the Pacific.

Battered by Katrina, Gulf Coast workers stand up

November 18, 2005 By Teresa Albano

NEW ORLEANS — Gail Andrews, a quiet, unassuming African American woman from New Orleans East, found her mother two weeks after Hurricane Katrina. Six weeks later, she lost her again. This time forever. At age 68,...