Dr. Calvin Mackie, a New Orleans native whose post-Hurricane Katrina experience helped shape a national focus on STEM ...

As industry consolidation continues, documentary films face a challenging path to supportive investors, wide distribution, and sustainable success. But the best documentaries of 2025 go a long way ...

When New Orleans native and entrepreneur Courtney Kelly was growing up, she dreamt of one day becoming a veterinarian. But when Hurricane Katrina ravaged her hometown, the storm altered the course of ...

Award-winning documentarian Ken Burns is back with a new PBS documentary chronicling how America’s founding reshaped the world. Co-directed by Burns, Sarah Botstein and David P. Schmidt, The American ...

Hours from landfall, Hurricane Melissa is also slow moving like Hurricane Harvey in 2017, which could mean catastrophic flooding. By Judson Jones Reporter and meteorologist Hurricane Melissa is only ...

Hurricane Melissa is stronger than Hurricane Katrina 20 years ago, forecasters warn. While both storms reached sustained winds of 175 mph at their peak, Katrina made landfall as a Category 3 storm.

Hurricane Melissa has begun its slow march towards Jamaica, and it is now one of the top 10 strongest Atlantic hurricanes ever recorded. As of the 2 p.m. update by the NOAA National Hurricane Center, ...

Coordinating a program of “Southern Stories” dedicated to the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina was more than an obligatory tribute. To Kelley Girod, the director of new works at the Apollo ...

Award-winning producer Alisa Payne was living in Brooklyn when Hurricane Katrina was set to hit New Orleans in 2005, but her sister was a third-year law student at Tulane University. Like many ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — “Surviving Katrina” is currently on display at The Tate Etienne and Prevost Center. It’s an exhibition by the artist Ted Ellis that shows the fortitude of New Orleans 20 years ...

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- Photojournalist Clarence Williams is retelling the story of Hurricane Katrina through his own unique lens at this limited-time exhibit. Williams was visiting ...

WRAL is excited to announce the premiere of Helene: What We Lost, What We Found, a powerful new investigative documentary examining the devastation and resilience that followed Hurricane Helene in ...