We have much work to do,” Hunter writes, “to ensure that an anti-terrorist component is part of the planning process for ...

The leader of the governor’s temporary shelter says they are fully staffed and genuinely ready to move people into permanent ...

The Descendants Project sues, contending that public officials had no right to forgive Greenfield’s grain-elevator-project ...

The Lens aims to engage and empower the residents of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. We provide the information and analysis necessary to advocate for more accountable and just governance.

“Nova,” by Jacob Kainen, 1977, watercolor and pastel with ink marker and pen and black ink on wove paper. (Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington) ...

The Lens aims to engage and empower the residents of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. We provide the information and analysis necessary to advocate for more accountable and just governance.

“I am a member of the Point Lookout burial crew,” say Lawson Strickland. “We are volunteer trusty inmates who bury inmates here at Angola's Point Lookout cemetery when they are unclaimed by their ...

Jordan Brown, 17, an award-winning debater and a senior at Delores T. Arthur School for Young Men, which closed on Friday after the charter school’s board surrendered its charter. For Jordan’s last ...

The narrow Holy Cross Historic District sits on high ground, spanning the Mississippi River side of the Lower 9th Ward, an area of town that’s isolated from the rest of New Orleans by the Industrial ...

The Lens aims to engage and empower the residents of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. We provide the information and analysis necessary to advocate for more accountable and just governance.