We Ain’t Useless But | The Lens
She’s the Queen Metropolis of the South,However she ain’t no southern belle.She’s a bourbon-drinking broadMade exhausting by her battlesIn wars, ailments, and different floods. However at night time her streetlightsAre the twinkles in her eyes—And from the high-riseOn these nights…
Behind The Lens episode 281: ‘Fully insufficient’
This month marks 20 years because the failing and defective U.S. Military Corps’ levees overwhelmed the town of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina hit. That catastrophe left an indelible mark on the town, with scars that may nonetheless be seen…
Behind The Lens episode 281: ‘Crumbling’
Hurricane Katrina hit town of New Orleans 20 years in the past this month. The storm left an indelible mark on town, with scars that may nonetheless be seen in some locations, but in addition stay in much less seen…
Behind The Lens episode 280: ‘The licensing of Essence’
This week on Behind The Lens, greater than 170 million folks have been underneath warmth alerts throughout the central United States, the Midwest, the Southeast and the East Coast, with some areas feeling temperatures as excessive as 115 levels Fahrenheit….
The gospel of Chuck | The Lens
Blessed are the grandmothersWho increase their grandchildren.They discover reciprocity within the happiness of the infants.Their present might be a brand new world constructedOn the constructing blocks of unrelenting devotionThe place they sing and danceAnd be joyful with out fear,As a…
Behind the Lens episode 279: ‘Incompetent or mendacity’
This week on Behind The Lens, complicated zoning and allowing processes imply residents of the Decrease ninth are at nighttime about what the plans for revitalization of the Alabo Road Wharf would possibly imply for them. Dawn Meals Worldwide has…
Hell on Earth | The Lens
Throughout the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, the biggest most safety jail in the US, incarcerated males reside underneath dangerously unsafe and degrading situations. “The warmth is insufferable. I rise up at three within the morning, and it’s nonetheless scorching….
Police | The Lens
The Orleans Parish Faculty Board and the police division determined to launch a marketing campaign that may improve the picture of the police. All the things I noticed on tv, or in our Dick and Jane schoolbooks, confirmed the cops…
Behind The Lens episode 278: ‘Didn’t file’
This week on Behind The Lens, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell withdrew a nominee for a spot on the board of administrators for the New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board earlier this month. The candidate, Kimberley Thomas, was fast-tracked for…
Climate watchdog silenced | The Lens
Our condo felt ominous the morning of August 29, 2005: my roommate was in her bed room with the door shut, along with her tv loud sufficient that I may make out the phrases “Katrina” and “landfall.” Nonetheless, the 2…