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…
Behind The Lens episode 260: ‘Robust Transitions’
This week on Behind The Lens, selections are in about colleges after state check outcomes had been launched and a few households and academics are actually scrambling after the district introduced two excessive colleges would shut. One will shut subsequent…
Behind The Lens episode 259: Opinion: ‘The schooling scenario’
This week on Behind The Lens, the academic panorama in New Orleans has some advocates touting the all-charter system as a mannequin for the nation. However the chief of an area non-profit Black Training for New Orleans, or BE NOLA,…
Behind The Lens episode 258: ‘Floodplains’
This week on Behind The Lens, because it first opened its doorways final yr, the Jackson Parish jail has flouted state-licensing legal guidelines for juvenile detention services. It’s been constantly accused of abusing and neglecting youngsters in its custody, however…
Behind The Lens episode 257: ‘Creating new reefs’
This week on Behind The Lens, off the coast of Grand Isle, Louisiana, “Cajun Coral” – a extremely customizable sort of 3D-printed concrete – is creating new reefs, slowly attracting sea life. And faculties are within the information this week…
We’re Not Finished But | The Lens
The conferences began within the Seventies, as many fortuitous issues do on this city, over steaming bowls of pink beans and rice. Devoted civil rights activists acknowledged that the promise of a sizzling meal—served in Dooky Chase’s upstairs eating room—may…
Behind The Lens episode 256: ‘A Difficult Endeavor’
This week on Behind The Lens, because the federal authorities proclaims a rule to get rid of all lead pipes throughout the subsequent decade, assessments by native nonprofit The Water Collaborative discovered lead in consuming water at 88% of New…
Behind The Lens episode 255: ‘Civil rights in danger’
This week on Behind The Lens, the Port of New Orleans introduced a plan to revitalize the Alabo Avenue Wharf within the Decrease ninth Ward, approving a brand new terminal for natural grain imported from Jap Europe, however residents’ ideas…
‘We’re nonetheless right here’ | The Lens
Although it’s a tough time for reproductive well being, Deliberate Parenthood Gulf Coast is asserting its continued presence in New Orleans with a brand new exhibit trying again at its 40-year historical past in Louisiana. “We’re nonetheless right here, holding…
Behind The Lens episode 254: ‘It is scary, harmful’
This week on Behind The Lens, persevering with with our reporting on the aftermath of the Dobbs determination by the U.S. Supreme Courtroom, Marta Jewson and La’Shance Perry talked with a younger lady who’s pregnant now along with her second…