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Forever Linked to Katrina, Ray Nagin Reflects on His Term

Forever Linked to Katrina, Ray Nagin Reflects on His Term

The legacy of former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin will be forever intertwined with the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. Though it was a disaster of immense proportions and consequences, Nagin, 54, received a great deal of criticism on how he handled the evacuation process to his proclamations that the city would be “chocolate” again.

[WATCH] Has Hip-Hop Saved Alexander Hamilton’s Face Time On the $10 Bill?

“All I knew about him was what you learn in the history classes; that he died in a duel. I figured it would have a good ending, so I picked up a book and I grabbed it…I didn’t know he was an immigrant, and I didn’t know that he 'wrote' his way out of the Caribbean,” Lin-Manuel Miranda told Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon.

A Rally Deferred

Unfortunately, the war in Iraq, an anemic economy, and slow consumer spending due to higher unemployment all conspired to dampen the success of William Young’s “momentum” investing strategy. The president...

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