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.
The first episode of a new podcast from The Atlantic. Holy Week: The story of a revolution undone.
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The story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination on April 4, 1968, is often recounted as a conclusion to a powerful era of civil rights in America, but how did this hero’s murder come to be the stitching used to tie together a narrative of victory? The week that followed his killing was one of the most fiery, disruptive, and revolutionary, and is nearly forgotten.
Over the course of eight episodes, Holy Week brings forward the stories of the activists who turned heartbreak into action, families scorched by chaos, and politicians who worked to contain the grief. Seven days diverted the course of a social revolution and set the stage for modern clashes over voting rights, redlining, critical race theory, and the role of racial unrest in today’s post–George Floyd reckoning.
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