This week on Behind The Lens, because the Tremendous Bowl approached, Governor Jeff Landry tasked a committee, dubbed “The Tremendous Gras Subcommittee” with beautifying and prepping the town for the huge consideration it might be receiving.

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

At The Lens, our whole staff 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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