Nation Aug 29 Photos: Through tears and cheers, New Orleans honors victims 10 years after Hurricane Katrina By Andrew Mach
Nation Aug 29 Watch Legendary New Orleans chef rebuilds neighborhood institution When Hurricane Katrina struck, Leah Chase was the chef and co-owner of the legendary New Orleans restaurant, Dooky Chase, a landmark in the city’s oldest black neighborhood. Chase saw her business, home and virtually everything she owned wash away, but… By PBS NewsHour
Nation Aug 29 Watch 9:57 ‘I just miss home’: Two stories of life after Katrina Hurricane Katrina displaced hundreds of thousands of residents of New Orleans and many never returned. For the past decade, filmmaker Rennik Soholt has followed the lives of several families who fled. Now, hear the personal stories of two former New… By PBS NewsHour
Nation Aug 29 How did Katrina change how we evacuate pets from disaster? The fact that many people died in the floods because they wouldn't leave their animals behind -- as well as the sight of hundreds of abandoned cats and dogs after the flood waters receded -- prompted major changes to state… By William Brangham
Nation Aug 29 When Louisiana lost its foster children Hurricane Katrina scattered thousands of Gulf Coast children nationwide. A decade later, are children in foster care safer in the event of a disaster?… By Laura Santhanam
Aug 28 Watch 5:31 Wiped out by Katrina, New Orleans church finds sanctuary in a living room By PBS NewsHour 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 NewsHour 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 NewsHour 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