Review of Katrina Babies (2022) by Bertobellamy — 07 Sep 2022

Young filmmaker Edward Buckles Jr. goes through a cathartic experience by asking the black people who suffered the Katrina disaster as children one simple question: "are you ok?".

'Katrina Babies' frames the struggle of the black community during the aftermath of the hurricane. The interviews are as sad as impactful, but Buckles Jr. isn't interested in melodrama; these conversations try to bring awareness to the importance of providing aid — physical and mental — to everyone, not just to white people.

This documentary must perdure as a fair claim of the injustice in the United States. Everyone deserves salvation after catastrophes like this one, but 'Katrina Babies" sadly reminds us that only white lives matter.