Reporter Trymaine Lee had been living in New Orleans and working as a reporter at The Times-Picayune newspaper for just four months when Hurricane Katrina hit.
At 26 years old, he could not have imagined that one of the deadliest hurricanes in U.S. history was about to pull him into the center of a national crisis.
Lee would soon see the impact of the storm on the city’s poorest residents, almost all of whom were Black, from the inside. His work would document their suffering and the government’s slow, uncoordinated response. And the tragedy of it all would push him to grow up as a journalist — fast…