Embracing Katrina narratives | The Lens
Tremendous Bowl planners: ‘Anticipate any options of [Lower 9] neighborhood that could possibly be utilized by media to substantiate Katrina narrative’ THE LENS MAP OF KATRINA NARRATIVES 1. Fats Domino’s residence, 1208 Fat Domino Ave. 2. Website of Lionel Milton…
Behind The Lens episode 264 Half I: ‘Our Katrina narrative’
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…
Shedding a neighborhood pillar | The Lens
The one individual I ever knew to make use of the phrase “communal infrastructure” within the context of friendship was Pableaux Johnson. By communal infrastructure he meant every part {that a} pal would possibly want over time. Abilities, instruments, meals,…
Behind The Lens episode 263: ‘They by no means paid’
This week on Behind The Lens, Tremendous Bowl LIX is quick approaching and New Orleans will host tens of hundreds for the sport, and tons of of thousands and thousands are anticipated to look at on TV. With a lot…
Behind The Lens episode 262: ‘A brand new era’s combat’
This week on Behind The Lens, in a unanimous vote on a controversial challenge, the New Orleans Metropolis Council’s Utilities Committee has allowed native vitality firm Entergy New Orleans to promote its pure gasoline distribution system to a brand new…
‘Servitude’ | The Lens
… Slavery and involuntary servitude are prohibited besides within the latter case as punishment for a criminal offense.—Louisiana Structure Article 1, § 3 EVERY MORNING AT 5 O’CLOCK SHARP, Slim is roused from sleep by the overhead fluorescents {that a}…
Kaleidoscope Reprise | The Lens
Within the Previous Administration Segregation—I as soon as believed there was NO WAYI might see the millennium come and go fromcontained in the penitentiary. That may be heresy,against the law towards humanity. It was.The date got here and went, left…
Ready. | The Lens
The outdated man hated mornings probably the most. Hated waking, the itchy wool blanket, the sounds of others; hated climbing down from atop the double rack, the ache of his naked toes on the metallic rungs; hated sitting on his…
‘Resentment shouldn’t be inevitable’ | The Lens
Strickland’s brief story, “Ready,” received the PEN Jail Writing Award for Fiction, and can be revealed within the forthcoming 2024 version of the PEN Jail Writing Awards Anthology. It’s additionally revealed right here by The Lens. What’s your writing course…
Behind The Lens episode 261: ‘A second within the 12 months’
This week on Behind The Lens, 2025 is quick approaching and as we flip the final web page on the calendar of 2024, we are going to have a look again on the tales that our reporters at The Lens…