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

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

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

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

A jury found that the defendants didn’t violate Joy Banner’s right to free speech or the Louisiana Open Meetings Law. But ...

After an insinuation made by a Super Bowl planning committee, reporters from The Lens asked Lower 9 residents what Super Bowl ...

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

Joy Banner of The Descendants Project brought the lawsuit after the Parish Council chairman threatened her with prosecution ...

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

On Sunday, at the Ladies and Men of Unity parade, an immense pillar of our city’s communal infrastructure collapsed, when Pableaux fell to the ground. Efforts at the scene and later at the hospital ...

Nick Chrastil and Katy Reckdahl on a temporary shelter Gov. Jeff Landry opened in the weeks leading up to the Super Bowl and ...

This is the introduction to a five-story project, The Lens’ Embracing Katrina Narratives project. Last summer, in July, a group of influential New Orleanians gathered, with hopes of preparing the city ...