Sommigen noemen het Orkaan Katrina. Anderen noemen het de Federale Overstroming. Weer anderen noemen het de dag dat de dijken braken. Op 29 augustus 2005 werd de stad New Orleans onder water gezet. Dat verhaal van hoogmoed, incompetentie en de wraak van de natuur is nu in het nationale bewustzijn gegrift. Maar de mensen die de overstroming en de nasleep ervan hebben meegemaakt, hebben een ander verhaal te vertellen. Een verhaal van geruchten, verraad, en een van de meest misbegrepen gebeurtenissen in de Amerikaanse geschiedenis. Gepresenteerd door Vann R. Newkirk II.
Some call it Hurricane Katrina. Some call it the Federal Flood. Others call it the day the levees broke. On August 29, 2005, the city of New Orleans was submerged. That story of hubris, incompetence, and nature’s wrath is now etched into the national consciousness. But the people who lived through the flood and its aftermath have a different story to tell. A story of rumors, betrayal, and one of the most misunderstood events in American history. Hosted by Vann R. Newkirk II. Floodlines has been named an Apple Podcasts Series Essential.
Part IX: After Hurricane Katrina and the breach of the levees in 2005, Floodlines examined what went wrong in New Orleans and what those errors meant for the people left behind. Now, 20 years later, the host, Vann R. Newkirk II, revisits New Orleans to meet up with Le-Ann Williams again and learn more about how time has shaped the role she holds in her family and her city.
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