March 20: Joseph Hooper
Fire on the Levee: The Murder of Henry Glover and the Search for Justice After Hurricane Katrina
Joseph Hooper is a native Baltimorean, and graduate of Calvert and Gilman schools. He has made his career in New York City where, as a freelance journalist, his work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, New York, Popular Science, Men’s Journal and Elle. Joe will be joined for this presentation by Ashley Johnson. Ashley was a rookie FBI agent at the time of the murders and was largely responsible for solving the case and attempting to bring the criminals to justice along with lead author and Justice Department prosecutor, Jared Fishman.
In 2009, attorney Jared Fishman, then an inexperienced Civil Rights prosecutor was sent by the Department of Justice to New Orleans to investigate rumors that the police may have had something to do with the 2005 shooting death and disappearance of an unarmed Black man, Henry Glover, in the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina.
About five years ago, Joseph Hooper joined forces with his friend, attorney Jared Fishman, to co-write the story of this most extraordinary civil rights case.
From Publisher’s Weekly: This riveting true crime saga begins in 2009 when Fishman, then working in the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, came across a file on Henry Glover, a Black man whose body was found in a burned-out car atop a breached New Orleans levee after Hurricane Katrina. This launched a yearlong FBI investigation that culminated in the conclusion that Glover was killed by a white police officer and it was covered up by the New Orleans Police Department.
VOICES, the Redeemer Speaker Series invites contemporary voices to challenge and inform us: artists and authors, visionaries and thought leaders, advocates of change courageous enough to hold the loveliness and sorrow of the world at once and find the wonder in both.
The Ivy Bookshop, a longtime partner in our VOICES series, will maintain a display of books in their store for our spring 2024 series. They will be at Redeemer to sell books for our speaker series on February 28, March 13 and March 20. We are grateful for this ongoing partnership.
