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…
Behind The Lens episode 277: ‘Hotter, hotter and warmer’
This week on Behind The Lens, within the ongoing authorized battle over situations on the Farm Line at Angola, a district choose has simply prolonged protections by means of mid-August for the incarcerated males working within the excessive warmth of…
From jail to justice | The Lens
The Jailhouse Lawyer, Calvin Duncan’s autobiography written with Sophie Cull, was launched this week by Penguin Random Home. The Lens is honored to publish an excerpt of it right here. Bernard Smith, The Lens: Let me ask you this primary….
Behind The Lens episode 275: ‘Snake hips’
This week on Behind The Lens, the variety of Louisiana kindergarteners studying at or above grade degree doubled in the course of the 2024-25 college 12 months, state officers reported earlier this month. That knowledge comes from the state’s early literacy…