Today is the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the Category 3 tropical cyclone that devastated the Gulf Coast, broke New Orleans' poorly designed levees, and submerged about 80 percent of the city underwater, displacing over 1 million residents. With winds exceeding 160 mph, the storm was a natural disaster that hammered all communities in its wake. But poor infrastructure and pervasive inequality meant that African American neighborhoods suffered most of all. Government records show that four of the seven zip codes with the most extensive flood damage had a population that was 75 percent or more Black.

Just as Hurricane Katrina wiped out Black communities in the Gulf Coast, Black people in Detroit are currently experiencing a hurricane with no water. Since 2009, the local government

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