Posts Tagged ‘new orleans’

New Orleans – Murder Board Documentary

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
State of the Re:Union

Sadly, murder victims have been framed as statistics, especially in high crime cities. Father Bill Terry decided to do something about it and found a simple way to humanize these victims.

Visit our New Orleans page to listen to the Murder Board segment in our full hour radio episode or for further information about what we found in the Big Easy.

This Disaster Moves in Slow Motion: Thinking of New Orleans & the Gulf Coast Oil Spill

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

It was only weeks after the SOTRU team was in New Orleans that the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico began sending millions of gallons of oil on a slow creep towards the Louisiana shore. We spent much of our time in the Crescent City talking to people about the slow, painstaking work of recovery from the winds and floods of Hurricane Katrina—and here they are, facing another natural disaster. (more…)

State of the Re:Union: New Orleans, LA – The Big Easy

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

Listen to the episode and check out our video documentary, podcasts, images and articles on New Orleans!

 

If you’ve listened to our NOLA episode, we want to hear from you. Please tell us what you liked, what you didn’t like and what you thought we could have done differently. The SOTRU team appreciates your feedback!