The New York Times has put together a great interactive page for the anniversary of Katrina (Ten Years After Katrina), and many other news organizations have also posted "then and now" features, including CNN and Time.
Florida State University will soon be announcing its creation of an Emmett Till Archive and it was recently announced that Whoopi Goldberg will be producing a documentary about the teenager whose murder was a motivating factor in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s.
You can also read more about both events, as well as their aftermath and lasting effects (including historical fiction novels) in both Central Library and Michael Library. Click 'Read More' (below right) to see lists of books on both topics that are available in ETHS libraries.
- Rivers, by Michael F. Smith [fiction]
- Hurricane Song, by Paul Volponi [fiction]
- Salvage the Bones: A Novel, by Jessamyn Ward [fiction]
- Beneath a Meth Moon, by Jaqueline Woodson [fiction]
- Dark Rain: A New Orleans Story, by Mat Johnson [graphic novel]
- A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge, by Josh Neufeld [nonfiction graphic]
- Blood Dazzler: Poems, by Patricia Smith [poetry]
- A Failure of Initiative: Final Report of the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina [nonfiction]
- Voices Rising: Stories from the Katrina Narrative Project, edited by Rebeca Antoine [nonfiction]
- Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster, by Michael Eric Dyson [nonfiction]
- Zeitoun, by Dave Eggers [nonfiction]
- Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City, by Jed Horne [nonfiction]
- Groove Interrupted: Loss, Renewal, and the Music of New Orleans, by Keith Spera [nonfiction]
- Katrinaville Chronicles: Images and Observations from a New Orleans Photographer, by David G. Spielman [nonfiction]
- After the Storm: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrina, edited by David Dante Troutt [nonfiction]
Books available in ETHS Libraries about the murder of Emmett Till include...
- Mississippi Trial, 1955, by Chris Crowe [fiction]
- Gathering of Waters, by Bernice L. McFadden [fiction]
- A Wreath of Emmett Till, by Marilyn Nelson [poetry]
- The Murder of Emmett Till, by David Aretha [nonfiction]
- Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case, by Chris Crowe [nonfiction]
- Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America, by Mamie Till-Mobley and Christopher Benson [nonfiction]
- A Death in the Delta: The Story of Emmett Till, by Stephen J. Whitfield [nonfiction]
- Simeon's Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till, by Simeon Wright w/Herb Boyd [nonfiction]