Hurricane Katrina hit town of New Orleans 20 years in the past this month. The storm left an indelible mark on town, with scars that may nonetheless be seen in some locations, but in addition stay in much less seen methods. These marks are not any much less extreme.

This week on Behind The Lens, we communicate with two folks on the frontlines of training in New Orleans, Deborah Richardson and Ashana Bigard. Deborah was a longtime instructor at John McDonogh Excessive Faculty. She returned to New Orleans after the storm to a college system taken over by training reformers, an act she stated resulted within the “hijacking” of the varsity — and certainly, it failed inside a yr.

Activist, organizer and writer of Past Resilience: Katrina 20, Ashana Bigard additionally joins this weeks podcast. She writes that the training reform after the storm turned a “catalyst for systematic wealth extraction from Black communities.”

Our friends this week Ashana Bigard, Deborah Richardson and Lens reporter Marta Jewson. 

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