#OnThisDay in 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf Coast, decimating Black communities in New Orleans. In the aftermath of the storm, Black communities were hit hardest once again when government-sanctioned urban landfill permits for new compounds in Black and historically underserved communities were hastily signed.
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