Hurricane Katrina Remembered and Local Church Helps Baltimore Recover

A number of articles I wrote, including the feature article, were published in the Summer 2015 edition of the Josephite Harvest magazine, the official magazine of the Josephite order of priests. Many of them are about the upcoming 10 year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. 

I interviewed priests and residents who were in the area at the time and got firsthand accounts of what it was like experiencing one of the worst natural disasters on U.S. soil, the chaos in the days following it, and what the city of New Orleans is like now. The fallout from the disaster has been mostly forgotten by most of the country since then quite frankly, and the city is in fact still recovering from it.

    

The feature article, however, is about the unrest that happened here in Baltimore following the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody. St. Peter Claver Church, located in the Sandtown neighborhood where Gray lived, became an instrumental location for the clean up and recovery efforts in the immediate days following the unrest. In the piece, the parish's pastor Father Ray Bomberger recounts what he saw that day and recalled his personal memories of the riots he witnessed in Washington D.C. following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.

   

Check out the articles by clicking on this link to the Josephite Harvest! The articles I wrote regarding the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina can be found on pages 14, 17, 18 and 19. The feature article about the  Baltimore unrest starts on page 24. Enjoy!