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Behind The Lens episode 230: ‘It is simple to get misplaced within the enjoyable of Mardi Gras’


This week on Behind The Lens, The Krewe of Choctaw throws plastic tomahawks and feathered headdresses, whereas their membership has no indigenous members, representing a dangerous portrayal of tradition to these of Choctaw heritage who proceed to protest and name for change.

Gun arrests spike throughout Mardi Gras and practically all these arrested final 12 months have been Black prompting considerations from some critics that the police are partaking in racial profiling.

And for the primary time, there was a visual, and arranged push to preserve Mardi Gras trash out of the landfill and get it into the palms of recyclers, due to a number of non revenue organizations and the Metropolis of New Orleans.

Our visitors this week are Lens reporters La’Shance Perry, Nick Chrastil, Delaney Dryfoos and managing editor Katy Reckdahl. 

Theme music by Podington Bear. Extra music Spring Solstice by Podington Bear soundofpicture.com. 

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Carolyne Heldman has been in media for 35 years, most not too long ago as Government Director at an NPR member station in Colorado the place she was answerable for new multi-platform content material initiatives, strategic…
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