Katrina's Lesson on Race

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 19, 2015

Jelani Cobb, associate professor of history and the director of the Africana Studies Institute, at the University of Connecticut and a contributor to The New Yorker, pushes back on the idea that the crisis following Hurricane Katrina ten years ago said something new about race and disaster response.

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