On Friday evening, The Contemporary Arts Center will kick off an exhibit for Danette Vincent’s Katrina Camera Kids, who picked up cameras for the first time after the storm and ended up capturing important moments in their lives.
"We knew that our city was worth investment and protection," writes Cierra Chenier. "The same must be true for our children."
Revived after 25 years, the Army Corps’ project would expand the Industrial Canal lock and destroy the historic St. Claude lift bridge, in a construction project that will last 14 years.
"We knew it was the breath of this city | And it was the confirmation that we were looking for," writes Chuck Perkins. We chose this poem to kick off The Lens' week of Katrina20 stories, essays, photography, and poetry.
Blessed are the ones who live with vigor | Despite life’s tragic comedy.
Regardless of how nervous this might make a kid, everything intensifies when your family is Black and big, white, tobacco-spitting cops approach your car in the middle of nowhere.
Calvin Duncan’s unfinished mission for justice moves to his political candidacy
Calvin Duncan’s fight to free himself and others from a broken system — an interview by Bernard Smith.
Calvin Duncan, one of the finest inmate counsels to ever file a writ from the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, releases his autobiography today, July 8. The Lens is honored to publish an excerpt from this highly anticipated book, The Jailhouse Lawyer.
