In February of this year, The Lens Nola published an article entitled After George Floyd’s murder, the New Orleans City Council created a committee to hear from ‘historically marginalized communities.’ […]
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Claiborne Overpass Construction That Obliterated Historic Black Business District May Get Restitution in Biden’s Infrastructure Plan
April 6, 2021In the early 1960s, the North Claiborne Avenue that ran through Treme was lined with 300-year-old oak trees. On either side of the avenue were bustling shops, storefronts, and other […]
Movie Review: American Skin
January 19, 2021Nate Parker returns to directing with this suspenseful film about one of the most polarizing topics in the contemporary United States, the extrajudicial killing of black people by law enforcement. […]
The unchurching of a movement
July 18, 2020African American movements for equality have long been entrenched in the Black church. The Black church has produced some of Black Americas most prolific and profound leaders such as Rev. […]
Juneteenth: The day of Jubilee
June 18, 2020Reparation New Orleans is calling for Africans Americans to march for reparations on Juneteenth (June 19, 2020) at 9:00 a.m. starting at Nora Navra Library Juneteenth has grown to be […]
A Dream Deferred: Examining King’s Speech in Wake of George Floyd’s Death
June 16, 2020On August 28th 1963, Martin Luther King stepped onto a podium in front of 250,000 people and begin to speak. The speech he delivered would eventually go down in […]
Editorial Board Round Table on the NOPD’s Use of Chemical Weapons Against the People of New Orleans on June 3, 2020.
June 9, 2020In the aftermath of World War I, in 1925 world leaders met to come to an agreement to ban the use of chemical and biological weapons during warfare. It wasn’t […]
I Can’t Breathe
June 4, 2020On May 25th, an African American man, named George Floyd, in Minnesota became the latest in a long list of African Americans to be killed by American law enforcement. In […]
Ethnography of a Pandemic: COVID-19, New Orleanians, and Transition
April 8, 2020The first case of COVID-19 in the state of Louisiana was documented on March 9. By March 22 there were 837 confirmed cases in 36 parishes with 20 deaths. The […]
The Color of a Pandemic: COVID-19, Poverty, and Race in New Orleans
March 28, 2020(Publisher’s note: The report referenced in the opinion piece was released by The Data Center in May 2018. The report was titled “Advancing Health Equity in New Orleans: Building on […]
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