This week on Behind The Lens, with the Tremendous Bowl approaching, when the eyes of the world would as soon as once more be on New Orleans, Governor Jeff Landry tasked a committee, dubbed “The Tremendous Gras Subcommittee” with beautifying and prepping town for the large consideration it might be receiving.

The subcommittee centered on the foremost vacationer areas, but in addition did a drive by way of of the Decrease ninth Ward, the world hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Although the majority-Black neighborhood has come a great distance since then, it’s, in some ways, the poster baby of the inequitable restoration that adopted Katrina. On the assembly final summer time, one slide of a presentation stated the go to to the Decrease ninth was to “anticipate any options of the neighborhood which could possibly be utilized by media to substantiate Katrina narrative.”

At The Lens, our complete workforce spent the higher a part of a month reporting on The Katrina Narrative.

Company this week embody Lens reporters Nick Chrastil, Delaney Dryfoos, La’Shance Perry, Mizani Ball, Marta Jewson, and managing editor Katy Reckdahl.

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