Been There Clearing House

Emily and I will never know what it was like to face Katrina head on, to live through the Superdome, to hang for dear life from a roof top, or to wade through a river that was once a street. We did not feel what it was like to not know how - or where - our family was; […]

If you are displaced by Katrina and living in Los Angeles, or would like to help those who are, please click here.
On the one year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, leading online parenting website www.momready.com, is reaching out to evacuees in Los Angeles. Through their site, Katrina evacuees currently living in L.A. can connect with individual donors locally […]

First let me say thank you to everyone who has extended a helping hand to all of us Katrina survivors (I never knew in my life time I would be proud of this so much.) As the anniversary of Katrina comes up I would ask everyone to please say an extra, special prayer for everyone […]

Spike Lee is releasing “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts,” his four-hour documentary on HBO this month.
The New York Times reviewed it today. Here’s a quote that got me:
‘“Levees” started out as a two-hour, $1 million film. HBO executives looking for a Hurricane Katrina project snapped it up. Mr. Lee […]