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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
Audio <i>World Vision Report</i> Stories World Vision Report Stories

Main Image: Another Black Blues Story
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.
Photo Another Black Blues Story Another Black Blues Story

Main Image: Beyond Black and White
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
Photo Vietnamese Tet Festival in New Orleans East Vietnamese Tet Festival in New Orleans East

Main Image: The Can't Do Nation
The Can't Do Nation
John McQuaid researched and wrote about how government agencies, most notably Congress and the Army Corps of Engineers, are not set up to deal with the major challenges New Orleans and the rest of the United States are facing in the 21st century.
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Print Never Again? The Politics of Preventing Another Katrina Never Again? The Politics of Preventing Another Katrina
Print Storm Warning: The Unlearned Lessons of Katrina Storm Warning: The Unlearned Lessons of Katrina
Print What the Dutch Can Teach Us About Weathering the Next Katrina What the Dutch Can Teach Us About Weathering the Next Katrina

Main Image: Child of the Flood
Child of the Flood
Child of the Flood, a novel by Dale Maharidge with photographs by Michael Williamson, combines fiction with documentary imagery and chronicles the story of John Boucher, an 18-year-old who is knocked unconscious and loses his memory as a result of the post-Katrina flooding.
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Main Image: Faubourg Tremé
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

Main Image: From Flood Lines to Second Lines
From Flood Lines to Second Lines
Kate Ellis and Stephen Smith completed two documentaries for American RadioWorks: Rebuilding Biloxi: One Year After Katrina, about families there struggling to recover one year after the storm; and Routes to Recovery, about whether the preservation and restoration of New Orleans' cultural life might provide the most enduring path to its rebuilding.
Audio Routes to Recovery Routes to Recovery

Main Image: Generation Katrina
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.
Video Bounce Music Bounce Music
Audio College Student Conversation College Student Conversation
Audio Generation Katrina Generation Katrina
Audio God and Katrina God and Katrina
Audio Neighborhood Violence Post Katrina Neighborhood Violence Post Katrina
Audio The Robinson Family The Robinson Family
Audio Troy Andrews on Jazz Troy Andrews on Jazz
Photo Youth Radio Photographs Youth Radio Photographs

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 Salimah Ali Photographs by Salimah Ali
Photo Photographs by Gerald Cyrus Photographs by Gerald Cyrus
Photo Photographs by Collette V. Fournier Photographs by Collette V. Fournier
Photo Photographs by Russell K. Frederick Photographs by Russell K. Frederick
Photo Photographs by Wayne Lawrence Photographs by Wayne Lawrence
Photo Photographs by Radcliffe Roye Photographs by Radcliffe Roye
Photo Photographs by Frank Stewart Photographs by Frank Stewart
Photo Photographs by Shawn Walker Photographs by Shawn Walker

Main Image: Living Through the Storm
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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Main Image: New Orleans Now: Weathering the Storm
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 Can Art Help Heal a Broken City? Can Art Help Heal a Broken City?
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

Main Image: N.O. Justice
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

Main Image: Not As Seen On TV
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

Main Image: Portrait of Neglect: Injustice of Hurricane Katrina
Portrait of Neglect: Injustice of Hurricane Katrina
"Portrait of Neglect: Injustice of Hurricane Katrina" is a body of photographs by Debbie Fleming Caffery that aims to capture the effects of this disaster on Louisiana's African American population.
Photo Portrait of Neglect Portrait of Neglect

Main Image: The Real Deal
The Real Deal
Students at the Center produced a series of short movies by youth from New Orleans that address the impact of Katrina on the daily lives of young people.
Video Jambo Kenya Jambo Kenya
Video A Jazz Journey A Jazz Journey
Video Moving On Moving On
Video This Is Where I Should Be excerpt This Is Where I Should Be excerpt

Main Image: Rebuilding, Inc.
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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Main Image: Still Standing
Still Standing
Still Standing provides an intimate portrayal of the challenges faced by three Hurricane Katrina survivors six months after the storm.
Video Still Standing Still Standing

Main Image: Struggling to Make It
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.
Print Do You Know What It Means to Myth New Orleans? Do You Know What It Means to Myth New Orleans?
Print Like a Ton of Bricks Like a Ton of Bricks
Print One-Way Dilemma One-Way Dilemma
Print The Price of Parading The Price of Parading
Print Razing a Community Razing a Community
Print Sour Note Sour Note
Print They Got It Bad They Got It Bad

Main Image: Those Who Fell Through the Cracks
Those Who Fell Through the Cracks
"Those Who Fell Through the Cracks" is a collaborative photography project by Stanley Greene and Kadir van Lohuizen that documents Hurricane Katrina's effects on Gulf Coast residents who are still struggling to reestablish their lives after the storm.
Photo Photographs by Stanley Greene Photographs by Stanley Greene
Photo Photographs by Kadir van Lohuizen Photographs by Kadir van Lohuizen

Main Image: To Have Not, And To Hold
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

Main Image: Where Do We Go From Here?
Where Do We Go From Here?
Joseph Rodriguez created an extensive body of photographs that will be distributed as a book, featured in online exhibitions, and displayed as a traveling exhibition consisting of approximately 25 multimedia portraits of individuals affected by Hurricane Katrina.
Photo The Hendricks Family The Hendricks Family
Photo Joseph Lawrence Joseph Lawrence
Photo Julia Stewart Julia Stewart
Photo Vietnamese Tet Festival in New Orleans East Vietnamese Tet Festival in New Orleans East

Main Image: Won't Bow Down
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)
Print Barack Obama in New Orleans Barack Obama in New Orleans
Audio Can New Orleans Music Survive? Can New Orleans Music Survive?
Print Do We Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? Do We Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?
Print Goin' Home, Eventually Goin' Home, Eventually
Print Hard Listening in the Big Easy Hard Listening in the Big Easy
Print It Ain't Easy in the Big Easy It Ain't Easy in the Big Easy
Print Magic and Loss Magic and Loss
Print Mending the Levees Mending the Levees
Print Not Wash Away Not Wash Away
Print Rebuilding the Foundation Rebuilding the Foundation
Print A Saint Goes Marching Home A Saint Goes Marching Home
Print Spike Lee's Reality TV Spike Lee's Reality TV
 
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