This week on Behind The Lens, the New Orleans Metropolis Council Road Naming Fee issued a report two years in the past recommending that 37 streets be renamed in order to take away the names of former slaveholders. Seven streets, together with Lee Circle, have since been renamed. Then the work stalled. Author Lolis Eric Elie joins the podcast to discuss his father, Lolis Edward Elie, a civil rights pioneer who’s on the quick record of individuals whose names are being thought of to exchange the present road names.   

Our company this week are former Lens board member and Occasions-Picayune columnist Lolis Eric Elie, Lens reporter Marta Jewson and managing editor Katy Reckdahl. 

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