Jim Dotson

The entire one-hour documentary is narrated by those Black residents displaced and by historians and National Park Service officials who try to explain the decisions of their predecessors from generations ago.

Since 2008, WLAE has produced 20 documentaries to preserve New Orleans cultural and to educate the public, says Ron Yager, WLAE’s GM: “We felt that we were the storytellers of New Orleans culture and if we didn’t do these types of stories, nobody else would.”