Hurricane Katrina Report Back and Update w/An Eye on Irene

Guests: Parnell Herbert and Tracie Washington from Louisiana Justice Institute, Kenneth Cooper, CeCe Campbell Rock join us from New Orleans and California to discuss New Orleans six years after Hurricane Katrina. We conclude with two poets: Marta Sanchez, writer and artist from Panama who now lives in Oakland, CA, and Furaha Youngblood from Louisiana by way of Los Angeles and Oakland, CA who now lives in Panama (smile). We discuss their books: Cat-Eyed Woman from Louisiana (FY) and Beauty Unbalanced (MS). Music: Anthony Brown Orchestra's Afro-Blue, Babatunde Lea.