"As a researcher who has closely observed, personally experienced local struggles," says the writer, Bethany Garfield, "it’s ...

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.

OPSB had sued because the city was skimming a portion off of the top of its OPSB tax payments; district officials agreed to ...

The Lens spent January talking to Lower 9th Ward residents to tell their stories, narratives a Super Bowl committee wanted to ...

Her family house has framed her world. With its doorway, marked with penciled hash marks to show her height over the years, ...

After Katrina, environmentalists built an overlook on Bayou Bienvenue to give the community access to the wetlands, which had ...

"Alice saved my life," neighbors say. In 2007, Alice Craft-Kerney helped to launch a post-Katrina clinic that was invaluable ...

This is the introduction to a five-story project, The Lens’ Embracing Katrina Narratives project. Last summer, in July, a ...

OPSB had sued because the city was skimming a portion off of the top of its OPSB tax payments; district officials agreed to settle last year, when the School Board realized it was facing a $36 million ...

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