August 29th marks the 55th anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium — the day in 1970 when tens of thousands of people marched through East L.A. to protest the number of Latinos dying in the Vietnam War.

Katrina claimed the lives of at least 1,300 people across the Gulf Coast. Twenty years ago, on Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina cemented itself in history as one of the deadliest and most devastating ...