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The nightmare called Hurricane Katrina was the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history. The sheer scale of the destruction, coupled with a widely criticized government response, created a humanitarian crisis and led to a massive, long-term displacement of residents, forever altering the region’s demographic and cultural landscape. Author/Narrator Melvin Cohea was one of those residents, but not a passive victim.

After being shot ten times by her fiancé and left for dead, Katrina Brownlee miraculously survived and became a decorated NYPD detective, a mentor, and founder of a nonprofit support group for at-risk women.

From the former President and CEO of the United States Tennis Association—the first black woman and youngest person ever to hold the position—comes a behind-the-scenes look at the leadership skills involved in hosting the U.S. Open, the largest and most lucrative sports event in the...

A mum and son who talk about West Ham United football club.

Day by Day Podcast is a weekly podcast from Katrina Isaac, Liv Kesic, and Ella Vahabsaday. They're girls that have completely different ethnicities and cultures which causes them to have many differences in each of their lives. Katrina is Syrian, Liv is Serbian, and last but not least Ella who is Persian! This podcast is about us sharing about our crazy adventures and stories that have been going on in our lives! Our goal is to have our audience relate and enjoy the stories that are being told. So sit back, relax, and enjoy listening to us rant off. Subscribe to our Youtube Channel Day by ...

Kickin' Back with Kat is a podcast dedicated to talking about wrestling and interviews with wrestlers around the world. Come kick back and listen! Please don't forget to subscribe. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kickinbackwithkat/support

1 Dead in Attic is a collection of stories by Times-Picayune columnist Chris Rose, recounting the first harrowing year and a half of life in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Celebrated as a local treasure and heaped with national praise, Rose provides a rollercoaster ride of observation, commentary, emotion, tragedy, and even humor - in a way that only he could find in a devastated wasteland. They are stories of the dead and the living, stories of survivors and believers, stories of hope and despair.

The true story of a resilient circle of shrimp boat captains who faced and withstood the wreckage of Katrina but now find their courage tested by a greater threat: the disappearance of their livelihood and their centuries-old bayou culture.

Chris Mooney, author of The Republican War on Science and one of the leading young environmental journalists and bloggers working today, immerses listeners in the world of those who study hurricanes. What was once an arcane branch of meteorology (itself an arcane science) has become embroiled in one of the most politicized and hotly contested debates in American science: whether or not the recent hurricane disasters, culminating in Katrina, are connected to global warming.