This administration is placing vulnerable communities at greater risk when severe weather strikes, says Sara Gonzalez-Rothi, ...

It’s a familiar scenario. Potential employers see criminal histories and don’t hire. In New Orleans, improvements to the city’s “Ban the Box” ordinance could better challenge employment barriers. An ...

The new Republican budget just slashed Medicaid by $1 trillion. In Louisiana, more than 200,000 people could lose coverage under Healthy Louisiana. Many don’t even realize that Medicaid is the ...

Bernard Smith on New Orleans' notorious House of Detention and protections for Angola's Farm Line workers in summer heat.

Jailhouse Lawyer Calvin Duncan officially qualified to run for clerk of Criminal District Court in Orleans Parish.

Kimberly Thomas, who served a decade ago on the S&WB, was given nod by a council committee last week and was slated for Council approval on Thursday ...

U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson requires Angola prison officials to monitor temperatures every 30 minutes. When heat index hits 88, Farm Line workers get regular breaks, ice, water, and shade, the ...

It helps you to be conscious when the security (the free man) is talking to you crazy, You want to pop him upside his head. Instead, you learn in critical thinking class to think, “Oh this clown. He ...

This week on Behind The Lens, Louisiana reclassifies natural gas as “green energy” under a controversial new law signed by Gov. Jeff Landry. We also examine a major expansion of ammonia plants in ...

In December, Fannie C. Williams Charter School sent a student home and barred her from returning to class until the child was cleared by a doctor — a flagrant violation of federal special education ...

This week on Behind The Lens, the number of Louisiana kindergarteners reading at or above grade level doubled during the 2024-25 school year, state officials reported earlier this month. That data ...

Over the course of several hours, before most of the city even finished their morning coffee, Lens photographer Gus Bennett sat down with eight individuals and one family. Each had their own rhythm, ...