
On MSNBC’s Saturday show “Melissa Harris-Perry,” associate professor of History and director of the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Connecticut Jelani Cobb explained that the problems in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina are equivalent to the
by Trent Baker29 Aug 2015, 4:19 PM PST0

While reflecting on Hurricane Katrina on MSNBC’s “Up with Steve Kornacki” on Saturday, Arise 360’s Lola Ogunnaike declared that if the “people on the ground in New Orleans would have been white” the response to Hurricane Katrina “would have been different.”
by Trent Baker29 Aug 2015, 4:17 PM PST0

During Saturday’s “Melissa Harris-Perry” on MSNBC, host Melissa Harris-Perry and University of Connecticut professor Jelani Cobb discussed Hurricane Katrina and the perception of African-Americans in America. Harris-Perry stated that she noticed people in New Orleans during Katrina wrapped themselves in
by Trent Baker29 Aug 2015, 4:15 PM PST0

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal fired up a hometown crowd with his 2016 GOP presidential campaign launch speech, hammering away at liberals like former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and at the entire political class on both sides of the aisle.
by Matthew Boyle24 Jun 2015, 6:43 PM PST0

Although NBC anchor Brian Williams has taken leave from his full-time job of delivering the news each night, he remains a member of the board of directors for the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation (CMOHF).
by AWR Hawkins10 Feb 2015, 4:53 PM PST0

From all the reports flying around, it seems as though former NBC anchor Tom Brokaw is now the elder statesman of the news division, and he is not at all happy with the fact that his predecessor, Brian Williams, has
by John Nolte10 Feb 2015, 10:12 AM PST0

Former FEMA Director Michael Brown called “B.S.” on embattled NBC anchor Brian Williams’s claims that he saw a dead body floating outside of his hotel room during Hurricane Katrina. Williams, who lied about having been shot down in a helicopter
by Tony Lee9 Feb 2015, 8:12 AM PST0

As Media Research Center fairly suggests, “the biggest witness against the exaggerated claims of Brian Williams’ Hurricane Katrina fabulism” may be Williams himself.
by Dan Riehl8 Feb 2015, 6:20 PM PST0

UPDATE: A blogger who goes by the name of SooperMexican was the first to report this discrepancy. Per this CNN Money report, a Brian Williams’ Katrina tale appears to have evolved somewhat dramatically over the course of just one year.
by John Nolte7 Feb 2015, 12:39 PM PST0

In the wake of the revelation that NBC’s Brian Williams told a false story about his helicopter being shot out of the sky by an RPG in Iraq, some of his other claims of facing danger while on assignment deserve
by John Sexton6 Feb 2015, 6:17 PM PST0

The question of whether or not Brian Williams can survive lying for 12 years about being shot down by enemy fire over Iraq in 2003 is one thing. Now a whole new series of questions have arisen surrounding Williams’ heroic
by John Nolte6 Feb 2015, 7:41 AM PST0

It’s been almost ten years since Hurricane Katrina struck the gulf coast of the United States and to commemorate the event, Selma director Ava DuVernay and actor David Oyelowo are reportedly teaming up to dramatize the historic storm. DuVernay, who
by Kipp Jones26 Jan 2015, 11:03 AM PST0