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True Terror: New Orleans Likely Not Prepared for Much
"As a researcher who has closely observed, personally experienced local struggles," says the writer, Bethany Garfield, "it’s ...
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Behind the scenes of Super Bowl shelter planning
Emails show that state officials considered creating a shelter in a barge moored in Industrial Canal — and that prominent local developers knew about the shelter long before some city officials.
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Behind The Lens episode 264 Part I: ‘Our Katrina narrative’
The Lens spent January talking to Lower 9th Ward residents to tell their stories, narratives a Super Bowl committee wanted to ...
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Council condemns mayor’s threat to scuttle $20 million settlement with Orleans Parish School Board
Orleans Parish School Board finance chair Olin Parker, alongside 30 officials, speaks to reporters at a joint press conference of the Orleans Parish School Board and New Orleans City Council after New ...
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Embracing Katrina narratives
After an insinuation made by a Super Bowl planning committee, reporters from The Lens asked Lower 9 residents what Super Bowl visitors should see, plotted the points on a map, and documented the ...
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She saw ‘a public-health crisis’ and opened a clinic in the emptied Lower 9
"Alice saved my life," neighbors say. In 2007, Alice Craft-Kerney helped to launch a post-Katrina clinic that was invaluable ...
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Though she was an infant when Katrina hit, she still feels its effects today
Her family house has framed her world. With its doorway, marked with penciled hash marks to show her height over the years, ...
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Super Bowl planners: ‘Anticipate any features of the [Lower 9] neighborhood which could be used by media to substantiate Katrina narrative’
The rundown Katrina memorial in the Lower 9th Ward, which stands in the neutral ground of North Claiborne at Tennessee Street. (Photo by La'Shance Perry / The Lens) This is the introduction to a ...