Getting Greenfield to pay what it promised
The Descendants Project sues, contending that public officials had no right to forgive Greenfield’s grain-elevator-project debts.
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‘Servitude’
The author, who is also associate editor for the Angolite magazine, won an honorable mention for this essay in the 2024 PEN Prison Writing Awards.
‘A make-believe person in a make-believe world’
“I keep paper and pen with me at all times because, like the most dynamic dreams, creativity is as wispy as Louisiana mist and dissipates quickly if not seized,” writes John Corley, associate editor of the Angolite, who says that, in his mind, he still lives in 1989, ‘the year I fell.’
Kaleidoscope Reprise
This poem received second prize for poetry in the 2024 PEN Prison Writing Awards.
‘Resentment is not inevitable’
“I am not a person who came to prison and became a writer, I am a writer who happened to come to prison.”
Top debate student couldn’t sway School Board to keep his school open
Delores Taylor Arthur School for Young Men closed Friday, and its students are now frantically trying to find spots to finish out the school year. Parents say that the school’s mid-year closing was a tragedy that could have been foreseen – and prevented.
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Oil and gaffe
Prominent oil-backed politicians claim that fossil fuels support Louisiana’s economy and that community activists are the problem. The facts say otherwise.
The increased urgency of Planned Parenthood’s work
Like most Americans, most Louisianans support abortion access. And when we show up, especially when it’s difficult and the odds feel stacked against us, we remind our legislative leaders that this government is supposed to work for us and reflect our values.
Behind The Lens episode 259: Opinion: ‘The education situation’
In a special episode, Adrinda Kelly, the founding Executive Director of Black Education for New Orleans (BE NOLA), whose mission is to support Black educators and Black-led schools, reflects on two decades of changes in New Orleans education.
Raised on meat, but going meatless one day a week.
Meat connected my family and so many Black families across the South – really across the world. Now, by embracing Meatless Mondays, I am weaning myself from it, for my health – and to help save Planet Earth.
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Behind The Lens episode 261: ‘A moment in the year’
The Lens staffers reflect on our work, including favorite stories, in 2024 and look ahead to 2025.
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