Natural Disasters

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Why We Remember Katrina
27 Aug 2025
Twenty years ago, the world witnessed more than the suffering of hurricane Katrina's victims. The United States was exposed as a failed state controlled by the cruelties of racialized capitalism.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Synergy of the Sacrificed: Katrina and the Praxis of Imperial Domination
27 Aug 2025
Twenty years after Katrina, the disaster stands not as an anomaly but as a blueprint. Its aftermath reveals a template for imperial domination, where "natural" disasters become pretexts for…
Jaribu Hill
Solidarity, not Charity—End Jim Crow Recovery—Restore All Communities
27 Aug 2025
Jaribu Hill, Executive Director of the Mississippi Workers’ Center for Human Rights, recounts the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast and the efforts to organize on behalf of the people.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Katrina: The Rich Folks' Opportunity and Our Dismal Failure
27 Aug 2025
"Racism showed its ass in the days after August 29, 2005."
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Don’t point fingers. Don’t ask evil questions.
16 Jul 2025
"Don’t point fingers. Don’t ask evil questions." is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
EDITORIAL: Even During Disaster, The Pittsburgh Courier, 1927
09 Jul 2025
“Neither disaster, catastrophe, nor calamity can take precedence … over the color-caste system.”
Adam Mahoney
Natural Disasters Are Driving a School Crisis. Black Children Are Hit the Hardest
02 Apr 2025
Black students are losing classrooms, homes, and support systems after climate events.
Carlos Sirah
Dispatch: Through the Fire
22 Jan 2025
The fires raging through southern California have devastated Black communities, such as in Altadena. The failures of city and state political leadership to provide proper emergency services have…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Hurricane Harvey and his destructive siblings...
12 Oct 2022
Hurricane Harvey and his destructive siblings...
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Hurricanes and Capitalism
13 Sep 2017
Freedom Rider: Hurricanes and Capitalism “No one can expect a helping hand unless they are already among the haves.”