Journalist Trymaine Lee was a cub reporter at The Times-Picayune in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina struck, part of the team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for its coverage of the storm. Even though he left the city long ago and now lives in Brooklyn, New York, he knew as the years passed that he would eventually come back and tell the stories of recovery both in New Orleans and on the Gulf Coast.

Over the last 20 years, he’s covered stories of racial injustice and the quest for equality. As a national correspondent for MSNBC, he led coverage of the killing of Michael Brown Jr., and the Ferguson uprising in its aftermath.

But, 18 months ago, with the 20th anniversary of Katrina approaching, Lee determined it was time to make plans for the documentary that would tell the story of rebu

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