"As a researcher who has closely observed, personally experienced local struggles," says the writer, Bethany Garfield, "it’s ...
"Alice saved my life," neighbors say. In 2007, Alice Craft-Kerney helped to launch a post-Katrina clinic that was invaluable ...
After an insinuation made by a Super Bowl planning committee, reporters from The Lens asked Lower 9 residents what Super Bowl visitors should see, plotted the points on a map, and documented the ...
Emails show that state officials considered creating a shelter in a barge moored in Industrial Canal — and that prominent local developers knew about the shelter long before some city officials.
The Lens spent January talking to Lower 9th Ward residents to tell their stories, narratives a Super Bowl committee wanted to ...
Council condemns mayor’s threat to scuttle $20 million settlement with Orleans Parish School Board
Orleans Parish School Board finance chair Olin Parker, alongside 30 officials, speaks to reporters at a joint press conference of the Orleans Parish School Board and New Orleans City Council after New ...
The rundown Katrina memorial in the Lower 9th Ward, which stands in the neutral ground of North Claiborne at Tennessee Street. (Photo by La'Shance Perry / The Lens) This is the introduction to a ...
Cedrionne Powell, who was six months old when Katrina and the 2005 levee breaks laid waste to her family's home. (Photo by La'Shance Perry / The Lens) This story is one of five stories in The Lens’ ...
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