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As the Katrina disaster unfolded, it became clear that some communities—particularly communities of color—faced greater physical and economic risk than others. Rooted in the nation's history of racial discrimination, these inequalities continue to plague the Gulf Region and beyond.
Main Image: After the Storm: Life in the Crescent City
After the Storm: Life in the Crescent City
Eve Troeh was the only public radio reporter on the ground full-time in New Orleans after Katrina; she reports on public safety, housing, and cultural rebuilding.
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Audio <i>Weekend America</i> Stories Weekend America Stories
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Another Black Blues Story
Clarence Williams is producing a photographic essay of post-Katrina New Orleans, from flood to aftermath to rebuilding, with a visual emphasis on the remnants of the cultural wealth and family ties that make this city unique.
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Beyond Black and White
Sara Catania wrote stories on the long-term effect of the storm on Vietnamese communities all along the Gulf Coast.
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Print From Fish Sauce to Salsa From Fish Sauce to Salsa
Print James Bui Builds the Peaceful Neighborhood James Bui Builds the Peaceful Neighborhood
Print Patching a Broken City Patching a Broken City
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Faubourg Tremé
Lolis Eric Elie and Dawn Logsdon are working on a feature-length documentary, Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans, which focuses on the historic neighborhood in New Orleans that, during slavery, was home to one of the oldest, most prosperous, and most politically active black communities in the country.
Video Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
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Generation Katrina
Youth Radio partnered with local New Orleans youth media groups, schools, non-profit organizations, and individual young people to create Generation Katrina: Youth Voices from New Orleans.
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Gulf Coast: Work in Progress
Dee Davis and the Center for Rural Strategies developed a media campaign to illustrate the struggles of rural Gulf Coast residents to re-establish their lives after hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The project aimed to help Americans understand conditions along the rural Gulf Coast and explore how America's failure to formulate effective rural policy is reaping disaster.
Video Gulf Coast: Work in Progress Gulf Coast: Work in Progress
Main Image: Lives Out of Context: A Hurricane of Race
Lives Out of Context: A Hurricane of Race
Ten photographers from Kamoinge, a New York-based collective of African-American photographers, documented ravished communities impacted by the hurricane and the devastation's far-reaching ramifications on the economic, social, and racial fabric of its residents; the resulting body of work explores the despair, as well as the hope and resilience of the many residents who have lived in these communities for countless generations.
Photo Photographs by Russell K. Frederick Photographs by Russell K. Frederick
Photo Photographs by Radcliffe Roye Photographs by Radcliffe Roye
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Living Through the Storm
Mark Hertsgaard focused on global warming and interviewed a wide range of people about what went wrong in New Orleans before Katrina, and how ongoing reconstruction and conservation efforts could protect the Gulf Coast in the future.
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New Orleans Now: Weathering the Storm
Tena Rubio developed the Katrina Uncovers/New Orleans Now series for the National Radio Project; as part of the project, she produced a 30-minute show on street art, a one-hour show about New Orleans two years after Katrina and a three-part series on the immigrant/migrant workforce in New Orleans
Audio Immigrants, Labor Rights and the Human Cost of Rebuilding an American City, Parts 1-3 Immigrants, Labor Rights and the Human Cost of Rebuilding an American City, Parts 1-3
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N.O. Justice
Chris Tetens and Lauren Thompson are producing the feature-length documentary N.O. Justice, about the failures of the New Orleans criminal justice system and the efforts of a few individuals determined to change it.
Video N.O. Justice N.O. Justice
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Not As Seen On TV
Two producers from New York City's Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV) traveled to New Orleans to collaborate with two local teen reporters on videos that illustrate how people of all ages are coping after Katrina. The films touch on how art can be used for healing, how residents are helping themselves in the absence of government support, and how issues of race, culture, and poverty continue to play a central role in recovery, relief, and revitalization efforts.
Video Not As Seen On TV Not As Seen On TV
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Rebuilding, Inc.
Tim Shorrock has been reporting on post-Katrina economic development and the health care crisis in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast.
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Restarting Public Schools in New Orleans
Ralph Adamo investigates the public education system in New Orleans.
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Struggling to Make It
Katy Reckdahl covered the working poor in New Orleans, their struggles to return to the city after Katrina, and the hurdles they faced once they arrived home.
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To Have Not, And To Hold
Filmmaker June Cross is working on a feature-length documentary film that examines the failures of public policy through the experiences of one extended family from New Orleans.
Video To Have Not, And To Hold To Have Not, And To Hold
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Won't Bow Down
Larry Blumenfeld researched and wrote about the post-Katrina realities faced by the prime movers in New Orleans's musical subcultures—from jazz musicians and brass band players to tribes of Mardi Gras Indians and the Social Aid and Pleasure clubs—and the cultural crises that emerged in the wake of the 2005 floods.
Print America's New Jazz Museum! (No Poor Black People Allowed) America's New Jazz Museum! (No Poor Black People Allowed)
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