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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.
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Part I: It all started long before a hurricane named Katrina.
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Part II: In New Orleans, the disaster wasn’t the hurricane. The disaster was what happened after.
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Part III: A universe of rumor and misinformation plays out on television.
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Part IV: Rumor becomes tragedy.
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Part V: A hero arrives. But not the one everyone expected.
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Part VI: How could the levees have failed?
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Part VII: People try to come home. But does home want them anymore?
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Part VIII: Water, like history, repeats itself.
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Holy Week: The story of a revolution undone.
The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 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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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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damn...this was such tragically beautiful episode and podcast. When Leanne said she was going to call her momma as soon as she got home, it just broke me. I felt bad for FEMA dude at some points but then when he ruined it by some of the shit he said, like about how Leanne should take responsibility for where she lived...as a child....for where she was born and raised, not of age to make a decision to leave everything/everyone she knows just because of the governments uselessness?
"Boy Stop!" 😂 That's how I'm feeling about this president.
Michael Brown is ... wow. what a wrecked human.
great series. audio keeps pausing on this episode but the storytelling is so good, I'll keep listening.
Michael Brown "Sorry, not sorry little girl. That's what you get for living there"
Michael Brown is a liar. I'll add that it's amazing how he got that job purely through association with no experience at all. But that's a whole other story. He did nothing because he did not give a damn. That's all.
THIS WAS RIGHT ON TIME. Slick, narrative production. listened. all last night. Thank you for this Atlantic.
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Highly informative, sad, infuriating, inspiring, revealing, insightful, all that and so much more. An exceptional podcast. A proud +20-year The Atlantic subscriber.