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…
The Lens Carnival Version 2025
FOR THE SECOND YEAR, The Lens presents its Carnival Version. Taking in parades collectively, however aside by MIZANI BALL At Carnival parades, New Orleanians say hey to strangers, tote wagons and folding chairs. However Mizani Ball experiences that, alongside the…
Scattershot statutes | The Lens
It’s change into one thing of a Mardi Gras custom for New Orleans law enforcement officials to make dozens of arrests of individuals — largely Black males — who’re charged with illegally carrying firearms inside the metropolis. For the final…
Behind the Lens episode 266 Carnival Half I: ‘Throw much less, throw higher’
This week on Behind The Lens, throughout Carnival season, gun arrests of individuals — largely Black males — spike. For the final two years, NOPD has arrested extra individuals for gun-related offenses throughout Mardi Gras week than every other time…
Behind The Lens episode 265: ‘That is only a payday mortgage’
This week on Behind The Lens, a few month earlier than the Tremendous Bowl, to the shock of many native officers, Gov. Jeff Landry introduced the upcoming development of the “Transitional Heart,” a 200-bed congregate homeless shelter in an uninsulated…