Aug 29 Photos: Through tears and cheers, New Orleans honors victims 10 years after Hurricane Katrina By Andrew Mach Residents and visitors of New Orleans, surrounded by the sound of church bells and jazz music, marked the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on Saturday, remembering victims of the storm and celebrating the region's resiliency. Continue reading
Aug 29 Watch 3:02 How has FEMA changed in the ten years since Hurricane Katrina? By PBS News Hour In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the Federal Emergency Management Agency -- FEMA -- was widely blamed for a lack of preparedness and an inadequate response. FEMA was slow to deliver food and supplies and housed displaced residents in toxic… Continue watching
Aug 29 Watch 5:46 How Katrina changed the laws about evacuating pets in natural disasters By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Aug 29 When Louisiana lost its foster children By Laura Santhanam Hurricane Katrina scattered thousands of Gulf Coast children nationwide. A decade later, are children in foster care safer in the event of a disaster?… Continue reading
Aug 28 Watch 5:31 Wiped out by Katrina, New Orleans church finds sanctuary in a living room By PBS News Hour The Mount Nebo Bible Baptist Church in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. As members of the neighborhood slowly return, Rev. Charles Duplessis leads church services and bible study in his own living room,… Continue watching
Aug 28 Watch 8:08 In reforming New Orleans, have charter schools left some students out? By PBS News Hour Ten years ago, New Orleans public schools were headed for academic rock bottom. And then Hurricane Katrina came, a disaster so devastating that it offered the rare opportunity to start over. Charter schools, empowered to take over, have raised test… Continue watching
Aug 28 Watch George W. Bush honors New Orleans educators ‘who stared into the eye of the storm’ By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Aug 28 The secrets behind the Big Easy’s comeback from Katrina By Jed Horne Ten years later, New Orleans provides revealing lessons on the role business and economics did and — and didn’t — play in the city’s now notably vigorous recovery. Continue reading
Aug 28 Gwen’s Take: New Orleans today is a story of pessimism, optimism and grit By Gwen Ifill NEW ORLEANS -- When I set off for New Orleans to help cover the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina this week, I confess I expected to bear witness to remarkable rejuvenation. Continue reading
Aug 27 Watch 6:47 Why actor Wendell Pierce didn’t wait for someone else to rebuild his New Orleans neighborhood By PBS News Hour Wendell Pierce is perhaps best known for his acting roles on “The Wire” and “Treme.” Lately, he’s taken on a different kind of role, as community rebuilder. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Pierce invested time, money and art into… Continue watching