In two 9th Ward schools, Abramson and Douglass, students lean on discipline, music, and one another as they prepare for New Orleans Carnival — and for life beyond the parade route.

To make clear that ICE is not welcome in New Orleans, a group of protesters walked the St. Charles route ahead of the Legion of Mars parade, which last year featured armed ICE officers.

This week on Behind The Lens, recent declines in solitary confinement had come because of human-rights activists like Kiana Calloway, and churches are being outfitted with backup and solar power to ...

A New Orleans–inspired spoken word poem calling for justice, democracy reform, prison rehabilitation, and cultural pride.

In St. Bernard Parish, fishing deckhands fear death and detention amid regular immigration sweeps - not by ICE, but the Coast ...

For more than a decade, we have reported on issues as well as public policy meant to address the needs of residents. The Lens seeks to focus on the inherent inequality that has created a multi-tiered ...

Carbon capture hasn’t delivered major climate benefits — and the plants would still emit thousands of tons of pollution.

A New Orleans human-rights advocate recounts her journey, her mother’s awakening, and the impact of aggressive immigration enforcement on immigrant families.

After hard work in the sun on the Farm Line, he’d fall asleep, only to be visited by nightmares, Chadarius Morehead testified ...

This week on Behind The Lens, a lawsuit targets the rezoning of land for industry, which would displace hundreds in Modeste, a predominantly Black community in Ascension Parish. Buyouts for a ...