Behind The Lens episode 271: ‘Demise warrant’
This week on Behind The Lens, a court docket order final 12 months mandated some protections for incarcerated males at Angola who work the Farm Line for little or no compensation within the brutal summer season warmth. In response, state…
Behind The Lens episode 270: ‘The mistaken colleges’
This week on Behind The Lens, the Louisiana Division of Training and Orleans Parish Faculty Board have requested a federal decide to launch them from a decade-old resolution forcing them to function below a consent decree which was instituted on…
Darkish Resurrection | The Lens
On the night the federal appeals courtroom lifted the injunction towards Jessie Hoffman’s execution, I ran right into a fellow prisoner outdoors our dormitory after work. Whereas we waited for the officer to unlock the door, I requested him if…
Behind the Lens episode 266 Carnival Half II: ‘One of the best spot on Fats Tuesday’
This week on Behind The Lens, New Orleanians preserve sure traditions at Carnival parades. We are saying howdy to strangers, tote wagons and folding chairs and blankets. However alongside the St. Charles parade route, we most frequently settle in areas…
Behind the Lens episode 269: ‘They don’t seem to be forgotten’
This week, two St. James Parish residents who not too long ago wrote a chunk for the Lens on their households’ deep roots within the area and how native histories like their very own are threatened by the oil, gasoline,…
Huge boots to fill | The Lens
With a few week left till Mardi Gras, Anthony Hingle Jr. went to his dad and mom’ home to complete a set of beaded pterodactyls. Utilizing white plastic from a bleach bottle, he reduce tiny zigzagged edges and positioned the…
Working capital | The Lens
by KATY RECKDAHL Individuals nonetheless say, ‘That’s not the Jessie I knew.’ However most didn’t know what he endured at house – and that’s possible what drove him on that day, psychiatrists say. by DENNY LeBOEUF Past the condemned, I’ve…
Behind The Lens episode 268: ‘Merciless and weird’
This week on Behind The Lens, to gas the AI explosion and its outsize power necessities, Louisiana utility firm, Entergy has floated a proposal to construct an enormous AI information heart in an impoverished part of north Louisiana. The $10…
Explaining Jessie Hoffman | The Lens
THIS IS PART OF “OPERATING CAPITAL,” AN ONGOING LENS DISCUSSION ABOUT LOUISIANA’S RESUMPTION OF EXECUTIONS. “Wait, what?” individuals mentioned on the time, in 1996. They’d heard that police had arrested 18-year-old Jessie Hoffman, the quiet child who’d been quarterback at…
Behind The Lens episode 267: ‘Younger, Black, vibrant’
This week on Behind The Lens, climate wreaked havoc on some Mardi Gras parades, forcing a re-routing of two of probably the most extremely anticipated parades, Zulu and Rex on Fats Tuesday. The truncated route meant substantial losses for some…