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Behind The Lens episode 254: ‘It is scary, harmful’


This week on Behind The Lens, persevering with with our reporting on the aftermath of the Dobbs determination by the U.S. Supreme Courtroom, Marta Jewson and La’Shance Perry talked with a younger lady who’s pregnant now along with her second youngster on what it’s wish to be pregnant in Louisiana immediately when entry to probably life saving care is restricted. 

And residents of St. James Parish are asking a federal courtroom, once more, to bar future heavy-industrial development within the parish’s Black communities, that are beset by excessive charges of bronchial asthma, most cancers and maternal-health dangers. The plaintiffs are asking the courtroom to place an finish to longtime land-use discrimination that they are saying is rooted in slavery and its afterlife.

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

Theme music by Podington Bear. Further music A Form of Hope and Beachhead by Podington Bear soundofpicture.com. 

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Carolyne Heldman has been in media for 35 years, most just lately as Government Director at an NPR member station in Colorado the place she was chargeable for new multi-platform content material initiatives, strategic…
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