Spike Lee, CNN get teens to film life in New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS - Spike Lee handed video cameras to New Orleans-area high school students and told them to capture their lives in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina for the world to see. "Let them know what's happening down here, that everything isn't okey-dokey," said Lee, who directed When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, a four-hour documentary chronicling the Katrina disaster.
The teens' footage will air monthly as part of a special CNN series Children of the Storm. The first segment, in which Lee and host Soledad O'Brien handed cameras to 11 students, aired Friday morning.
The series will run until the second anniversary of Katrina in August.
Students will document how the hurricane affected their lives and neighborhoods while also sharing their thoughts about the city's recovery and their future in New Orleans, O'Brien said.
"You're doing this for the world," Lee said in the first segment. "Remember it's not just for yourself."

I applaud Spike Lee for his brave efforts to call out the grotesque treatment of the people of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. This documentary will be very important for the world to see. The media can be very disheartful and will seize any coverage of the aftermath in order to make "us", the public, forget. But we will never forget or forgive. Being from Houston, Texas, I frequented New Orleans and I know it will never be the same. All of the communities that were devastated will probably never be rebuilt. I hope that people across the country from all races will now vote intelligently, so this will never happen again.