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
Aug 27 Watch 3:00 Hurricane Katrina exposed ‘deeper tragedy’ of inequality, says Obama By PBS News Hour In New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward, President Obama commemorated the 10th anniversary of the costliest natural disaster in American history. Praising the city's resilience, the president also acknowledged the failure of government to look out for its vulnerable residents. Judy… Continue watching
Aug 27 Obama says New Orleans is ‘moving forward’ after hurricane By Darlene Superville, Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says New Orleans is "moving forward" a decade after Hurricane Katrina dealt it a devastating blow, and has become an example of what can happen when people rally around each other to build a better… Continue reading