Donald Powell and La’s Road Home
People listen when one of the President’s men speaks. So it got noticed last week when Donald Powell, recovery czar for the Gulf Coast said “…the federal government is responsible for this hurricane damage (to New Orleans) because of the failure of the levee system…” Powell said this before the Senate Disaster Recovery Subcommittee. It [...]
Awful, like the failure of the federal levees in New Orleans
Always an optimist and never missing a reason to celebrate, I was delighted to find a good “sign” in the Times Picayune’s letters-to-the-editor (LTEs). Two days in a row, on unrelated subjects, writers punctuated their points by drawing parallels to the “failure of the federal levees.” One of the LTEs was about the theft of [...]
PoP: YouTube and Hurricane Katrina
Hello, my name is Babatunde A……. and I am currently a junior at UCLA’s film school studying documentary filmmaking. I recently took a trip this past February to visit my best friend who attends HBCU Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans. While I was there, my friend and his Uncle–a native of New Orleans–took [...]
