Neither the epic storm nor the city's recovery have remedied systematic racial prejudices that have undermined African-Americans' efforts to rebuild and return home.

Because the right to a lawyer doesn't count for much if nobody's willing to pay for it.

Grassroots organizing and protest has fueled a wave of outrage about policies that crush the poor.

These 20 stories and op-eds drew attention to critical but underreported issues, rebutted persistent myths, lifted up policy solutions and even served as a catalyst for change.

The climate crisis is a once-in-a-century chance to make our world more equitable

There is only one presidential candidate who has consistently fought for the kinds of policies that New Orleans so desperately required prior to and during Katrina.

This new documentary looks at gentrification in New Orleans and its effects on the city's low-income communities.

Instead of dealing with real, complex social issues with compassion and intelligence, our major institutions seem to be fortifying themselves – with ever-increasing futility – against their imagined demons.

On the Gulf Coast, activists are working to unite communities to protect their environments.

A new citizen science project launched by the University of Oxford will probe whether global warming led to massive floods in the UK this winter.