Behind The Lens episode 233: ‘A Black hamlet’
This week on Behind The Lens, the planning fee of St. John the Baptist Parish voted to permit heavy industrial makes use of on a disputed plot on the parish’s rural West Financial institution after years of contentious debate. And…
Behind The Lens episode 244: ‘Increasingly more extremes’
This week on Behind The Lens, 15,000 Louisianans have misplaced meals stamps resulting from reinstated federal work necessities. 1000’s extra will seemingly lose advantages beginning this fall, resulting from a brand new Louisiana regulation that bars state officers from doing…
Behind The Lens episode 243: ‘The photo voltaic Motherhouse’
This week on Behind The Lens, a U.S. District decide ordered the Louisiana Division of Corrections to submit a plan to guard inmates laboring on the Farm line at Angola who face “instant threats” from working in excessive warmth with…
Let the bargaining start | The Lens
On the Tulane College campus, all the pieces appeared in movement this week: leaves sprouting on huge live-oak bushes, college students in inexperienced Tulane t-shirts milling round on the large grassy garden. In the meantime, a few of the historic…
Behind The Lens episode 242: ‘Excessive warmth and soiled water’
This week on Behind The Lens, the variety of inmates held at The Orleans Justice Heart has surpassed the town’s jail inhabitants cap, sparking questions on the way to enhance releases whereas decreasing bookings — and what the rising jail…
Nuns Harnessing the Solar | The Lens
When the following main storm strikes New Orleans, the Sisters of the Holy Household motherhouse will shine as a beacon for New Orleans East. “Observe the sunshine to 6901 Chef Menteur Freeway and that may lead you to God’s gentle,”…
Behind The Lens episode 234: ‘Rabble-rousing on the Massive Inexperienced’
This week on Behind The Lens, in St. John Parish, a choose denied a request for a short lived injunction, permitting a Council vote to proceed on rezoning that will pave the way in which for Greenfield Louisiana to assemble…
Behind The Lens episode 241: ‘Radical Black pleasure’
This week on Behind The Lens, in a metropolis that’s synonymous with music, that’s be the driving power behind a number of native Juneteenth commemorations. Reporter Mizani Ball talks by way of her story on the historic and ongoing wrestle…
The Sound of Freedom | The Lens
Most New Orleanians have realized that the town’s sound of freedom has deep roots within the Sunday dancing and drumming in Congo Sq.. “Music grew to become the consciousness of our society, selling each concord and expression,” mentioned Cyril B….
Behind The Lens episode 240: ‘A permanent insult’
This week on Behind The Lens, the New Orleans Metropolis Council Road Naming Fee issued a report two years in the past recommending that 37 streets be renamed in order to take away the names of former slaveholders. Seven streets,…